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5.8
Genres are HistoryWest Produced in 1940, USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Rating: 5.8 out of 10 (85 votes)
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| Actors | |||
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| John Miljan | Ethel Wales | Monte Montague | Julie Bishop |
| Roy Rogers | Archie Twitchell | Jack Ingram | |
| Directors | |||
| Joseph Kane | |||
Storyline
Plot Summary:
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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planktonrules
23 May 2012
A lot of enjoyable historical nonsense.
Hollywood had a huge love affair with westerns up until about 1960.Most of the ways they portrayed the west were complete nonsense andthey had a habit of injecting real-life characters into situations thatnever occurred. Heck, the lives of Billy the Kid, Jesse James, WyattEarp and Bill Hickok are completely unrecognizable in the hundreds andhundreds of films in which they appear. "Young Bill Hickok" is yetanother one of these entirely fictitious films from this era and iteven throws in Calamity Jane (a rather unattractive woman in real life)to boot. Playing so fast and loose with the truth drives historyteachers like me crazy, but my love of a fun B-movie kept me watching.Roy Rogers plays Bill Hickok and he looked even less like Bill thanGabby Hays who is on hand (as usual) to play Roy's loyal sidekick. Asfor the plot, it's all a lot of nonsense about Bill tracking down someConfederate raiders and their unknown leader as well as Bill wanting tomarry a Southern lady. I won't bother going into any more details asnone of it seemed to bear any semblance to Hickok's life.Overall, the film is a pretty ordinary Roy Rogers film. There's lots ofsinging for no apparent reason, Hays is quite funny in support and inthe end good triumphs over evil. The only moment of the film thatreally caught my attention was the jail break--that was very clever andyou just need to see it. Worth seeing for Rogers fans--otherwise justanother one of 23281235413 B-series westerns.
keesha45
22 May 2012
Not a bad way to kill an hour
This is the first Roy Rogers film I've ever seen in its entirety,although I watched many an episode of his TV show in my younger years.It was a passable B western, with some fine Yakima Canutt stunts, andfeatures an appearance by a veteran of John Wayne's old Lone Starwesterns, Jack Rockwell, as a stagecoach driver. Roy, Sally Payne andGabby sing some fair but forgettable songs, Sally and Gabby's scenestogether are a hoot, and Julie Bishop and Trigger both look as comelyas ever. The screenwriters in typical Hollywood fashion play fast andloose with the history of these characters and their times.(The notionof anybody trying to take California away from the U.S. is ridiculous,Wild Bill and Calamity didn't meet until almost a dozen years after theCivil War and both were pretty homely looking even by 19th centurystandards.) All in all, some parts of this film are quite entertaining,it's mostly pleasing to the eye and ear, and it's not a bad way to killan hour. Dale Roloff
FightingWesterner
20 May 2012
Mild Bill Hickock
In the final days of the Civil War, young Bill Hickock (Roy Rogers) issent by the War Department to deliver a shipment of gold for the Unioncause. Acting as a decoy, he sends the gold with Gabby Hayes and Hayes'sidekick Calamity Jane (!), hoping to outsmart the European backedsaboteurs that want to take it.Not so wild this time around, Young Bill Hickock's bland script takestoo much time getting started and doesn't really generate muchexcitement or great music. This Republic Picture does have some decentproduction values though.Astonishingly, the script veers into JFK style conspiracy theories nearthe end, with European powers using John Wilkes Booth as a pawn inorder to divide the US again, in order to gain control of the west!However, it's still not enough to make this really worth recommending,except for maybe the most die-hard Roy Rogers fans.The best thing in the movie is the feisty performance by Sally Payne asCalamity Jane. She's pretty cute and does a good job.
classicsoncall
20 May 2012
Looks like it was a pretty good fight while it lasted.
"Young Bill Hickok" freely uses the names of historical figures to tella formulaic story of adventure in the closing days of the Civil War.Roy Rogers portrays Wild Bill, earning his name after he wards off aband of Morrell's Overland Raiders singlehandedly. The central storyinvolves the shipment of gold to help finance the Union's war effort,while foreign agent Nicholas Tower (John Miljan) attempts to disruptthe enterprise, enlisting the aid of seedy John Morrell (Wally Wales asHal Taliaferro). On the side of the good guys are crusty Gabby Whitaker(George "Gabby" Hayes) and Calamity Jane Canary (Sally Payne).Jacqueline Wells provides the love interest for Hickok, and herpresence sets up some tension in the film, first as a Southern lady andConfederate sympathizer, and also as Hickok's bride to be who must takea back seat to his duty to help the Union cause.Before the film is over, the Civil War has ended with Lee's surrender,and the news of Lincoln's assassination arrives. Tower's associationwith John Wilkes Booth was established midway through the film asHickok discovers a letter signed by Booth in Tower's office. Theinclusion of these historical snippets adds some interest to theproceedings, but ultimately have no affect on the main story itself. Generally Roy Rogers portrayed himself or a character named Roy Rogersin his films, but as in this movie, he occasionally was cast as alegendary Westerner. For more of this type of fare, try "Billy the KidReturns", "Young Buffalo Bill", or "Jesse James at Bay".
Brian Camp
18 May 2012
Roy Rogers sides with Calamity Jane in historical B-western
In his early years at Republic Pictures, Roy Rogers specialized inhistorical westerns (DAYS OF JESSE JAMES, BILLY THE KID RETURNS), incontrast with the contemporary settings of his wartime and postwarwesterns(DON'T FENCE ME IN, THE GOLDEN STALLION, etc.). YOUNG BILL HICKOK (1940)casts Rogers in the title role and dramatizes the famed gunfighter'sfirstmeeting with Calamity Jane (played by Sally Payne in the first onscreenportrayal of the character since Cecil B. DeMille's epic western of1936,THE PLAINSMAN, which also featured Hickok and paired him with BuffaloBill,who's absent from this film). The film starts out promisingly as it details a plot by an unnamedforeignpower to take advantage of the divisions of the then-raging Civil War totryto take over California. John Miljan plays the foreign agent, NicholasTower, without a trace of an accent or any other hint of which countryhe'ssupposed to represent. (The name Nicholas may signal a Russian origin,butweren't the Soviets our wartime allies?) Tower conspires with Morrell(HalTaliaferro), a local outlaw, to disrupt the stage lines servingCalifornia,and when Morrell's Raiders go into action, they run afoul of young BillHickok (dubbed Wild Bill by a reporter for "the Chronicle") who soonallieswith wagon freighter Gabby Whitaker (Gabby Hayes) and his salty youngfemalepartner, Calamity Jane. After introducing all the characters and settingupthe basic premise, which offered a good deal of potential for suspense,theaction quickly settles into familiar B-western territory as Hickok hastodefend himself against a charge of masterminding the theft of a goldshipment he was assigned to guard. Gabby and Jane spring him from jailandwork to get the goods on Tower. At a certain point it becomes simply onechase after another, albeit with the usual topflight Republic stuntwork.While the drama wavers in the second half, the spirit of fun ismaintainedby the delightful performances of Gabby Hayes, in his trademark wizenedoldwesterner role, and the film's genuine revelation, Sally Payne, as theno-nonsense Calamity Jane, whose command of western vernacular isequaledonly by Gabby's. (A horse is never a horse, but a "Cayuse.") The homely,mannish Jane was always a challenge to Hollywood, which couldn't resisttheurge to make her pretty by casting such top stars as Jean Arthur (THEPLAINSMAN), Yvonne De Carlo (CALAMITY JANE AND SAM BASS) and Doris Day(CALAMITY JANE) in the role. Here she looks and sounds a little closerperhaps to what the real woman was like, although the best Calamity Janeonscreen may arguably be Ellen Barkin in Walter Hill's WILD BILL(1995).There are a handful of short songs that don't intrude much on theaction,including one performed together by Gabby and Sally. Special mentionshouldbe made of B-western regular Hal Taliaferro (aka Wally Wales) whodelivers asharp portrayal of bandit Morrell who distrusts the "foreigner" Towerbuttakes the job anyway because the pay is good. Long-haired, unshaven andtall, with piercing eyes, Taliaferro cut a suitably seedy and menacingfigure but with a touch of humanity. It's too bad the importance of hischaracter diminishes as the film progresses, with Tower taking upgreaterscreen time. Iron Eyes Cody is on hand as one of Gabby's Indian workers.Jacqueline Wells (aka Julie Bishop) plays northerner Hickok'ssouthern-bornfiancee, lending a bit of romantic conflict to the equation as theybickerabout the ongoing war.
wes-connors
18 May 2012
Calamity Jane and an Exciting End
Roy Rogers stars as "Young Bill Hickok", saving California and its goldfrom wicked invaders like John Miljan (as Nicholas Tower) against aCivil War back-story with references to Abraham Lincoln and JohnWilkes Booth. This time George "Gabby" Hayes brings along his niece,none other than Calamity Jane (well played by Sally Payne) to assistMr. Rogers. It's an interesting team-up concept, however unlikely.The film's highlight is its posse / stagecoach chase scene, near thefilm's end. Rogers and Yakima Canutt -- I assume the stuntman is thestunning Mr. Canutt -- perform well in an exciting man-under-the-stagesequence. That sequence followed one of the typical Rogers songs.Otherwise, this is nothing more than a fair Rogers western. *** Young Bill Hickok (1940) Joseph Kane ~ Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby'Hayes, Sally Payne
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