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Sheriff of Las Vegas is a american film of genre Western directed by Lesley Selander released in USA on 31 december 1944 with Wild Bill Elliott
Sheriff of Las Vegas (1944)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 31 december 1944
Length 1h5
Directed by Lesley Selander
OriginUSA
Genres Western
Rating69%
Sheriff of Las Vegas is a 1944 American film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Wild Bill Elliott in the role of Red Ryder Costarring as Little Beaver, was actor (Bobby) Robert Blake. It was the sixth of twenty-three Red Ryder feature films that would be produced by Republic Pictures.
Synopsis
The Duchess Alice Fleming, living in Las Vegas, Nevada promises to help the local schoolteacher Ann Carter (Peggy Stewart) with her “wild” boyfriend, Tom Blackwell (Jay Kirby). Red Ryder is asked to lend a hand by the Duchess but when he does, he discovers Tom drunk in the saloon owned by Dan Sedley (William Haade). Red is interrupted however, by an attempted bank robbery. He foils the heist and retrieves the money, which he returns to Arthur Stanton (Selmer Jackson), the bank president. What Red doesn’t know is that Stanton has embezzled over $40,000 from his bank and afterwards, had his bank robbed to cover the crime.Actors
Wild Bill Elliott
(Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott))
Robert Blake
(Little Beaver (as Bobby Blake))
Alice Fleming
(The Duchess)
Peggy Stewart
(Ann Carter)
Selmer Jackson
(Arthur Stanton)
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