"HOPPY'S ON THE LOOSE...bucking a game with the deck stacked against him!" 08 March 1940 Western 65 mins
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
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William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy
Britt Wood as Speedy McGinnis
Russell Hayden as Lucky Jenkins
Jan Clayton as Sue
Morris Ankrum as Baron Rendor
Wright Kramer as Colonel White
Eddie Dean as Marshal
Donald Kirke as Harry Cole
Roy Barcroft as Bowman
Kermit Maynard as Johnson
Walter Shumway as Snell
Ken Darby as Rider
Bud Linn as Rider
Rad Robinson as Rider
Jon Dodson as Rider
Murdock MacQuarrie as Zeke
Howard Bretherton Director
John Leipold Music
Lewis J. Rachmil Art Direction
Harry Sherman Producer
Carroll Lewis Editor
Clarence E. Mulford Characters
Harold Daniel Kusel Screenplay
Jack Jungmeyer Story
Daniel Kusell Screenplay
Russell Harlan Director of Photography
United States 08 March 1940
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