cassidy of bar 20
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hopalong cassidy series... bar 20 justice (1938)... paramount
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ride on over to the bar 20... a tribute to william boyd' s
hopalong cassidy
ride on over to the bar 20... a tribute to william boyd' s
hopalong cassidy
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the local school is causing hoppy problems. first bar 20 cattle are stolen when hoppy investigates a problem there. then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the bar 20 hands... see full summary »
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hopalong cassidy (william boyd) leaves the bar 20 ranch to help nora blake (nora lane) fend off clay allison' s cattle rustlers .
cassidy rules the range country... but a spunky slip of a gal rules cassidy !
: nelson' s his name. he' s up here from the bar - 20 to get married .
ride on over to the bar 20... a tribute to william boyd' s & quot; hopalong cassidy & quot; - classic images: features
belle starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by hoppy and the bar 20 gang .
cattle rustler nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the west. hoppy and the bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream .
bar 20 boys to the rescue! ... when cassidy needs help most! here' s the shootin', ridin' western hero fightin' with his back against a wall !
during the spanish - american war, colonel teddy roosevelt' s rough riders are short of horses, and hopalong cassidy and his bar - 20 friends are detailed to round up a bunch of wild horses, but... see full summary »
his career sputtered along until 1935 when he was offered the role of buck peters, in harry “pop” sherman’s new movie version of mulford’s bar 20 adventures. boyd accepted the offer, but he wanted to play mulford’s character, hopalong cassidy. he liked the name and thought kids would too. since boyd still had name recognition value, sherman agreed to let him play the part of the bar 20 foreman. boyd also wanted to portray hoppy as a character quite unlike the one mulford had created. thus was born the hopalong cassidy we love … the galahad of the west .
william boyd has been gone since september 12, 1972, but for fans like me he never will be truly gone because he gave me and millions like me an everlasting gift. thank you, mr. boyd—thank you for giving us hopalong cassidy, gentleman of the bar 20 .
i' m a fan of the
b
westerns. hopalong cassidy is high on my list of favorites along with roy rogers. i remember
bar 20 justice
from my the days of my youth having first seen it in my local theatre. also, it features
hoppy' s
popular sidekicks: lucky and california !
hopalong cassidy of bar 20 fame was first a literary character created by author clarence e. mulford in the early 1900s. a municipal clerk in new york, mulford wrote eighteen hopalong cassidy stories. his hopalong was very different from the one in the hollywood movies of the 1930s and' 40s. a rough and ready, red - haired cowboy, the literary hoppy loved women, whiskey, and tobacco .
: yeah, he accused me of cheatin' him up in eagle. he got his bar - 20 friends together, cleaned out my layout, burned down the saloon, and drove me out of town. i swore i' d get even with him if it took me ten years... .
this early hop - along cassidy book is for fans only, and i mean fans of author clarence mulford, not the cassidy films which have little in common with this book. it is very badly written. very .
cattle rustler nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the west. hoppy and the bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream. director: howard bretherton writers: clarence e. mulford (based on characters by), doris schroeder (adaptation) stars: william boyd, james ellison, jean rouverol
i' ve always loved
hopalong (bill) cassidy
since i was a child (1950) strictly through the movies. watched everything collected all audio and videos of. now for the first time i decided to go back to his roots and the written word of
clarence e. mulford
. this was the greatest discovery in my lifetime joy of hoppy! mulford had the true gift of spinning a western tale and giving us the bar - 20 and all those wonderful colorful characters. this is his first and it was awesome! clarence wrote 28 hop
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hopalong cassidy, boss of the bar 20 ranch in texas, rides down the camino real in the new mexico cattle country near alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, nora blake, who is in serious trouble. before he and his saddlemates ,
lucky
jenkins and
pappy
, can reach her ranch, they are stopped by clay allison, a cattle - rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing nora' s cattle and driving her out. seeing cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped - up charge. cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach nora; s ranch where they learn that allison' s henchmen have murdered her foreman, tom dillon, and allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the texas border .
hoppy clears lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley .
hopalong cassidy fans will find plenty of hard - riding, fast - shooting intrigue and fist fighting in this, the seventh of the hopalong series. in the nick of time, boyd arrives on the scene after lane, an old sweetheart, sends for him to rid her and darien' s range of rustlers and badmen. some exceptional photography of mountain backgrounds distinguishes this... read more
i don’t pretend to be an actor or director or producer or movie critic whose profession is to know what is involved in making a character believable. i just know that for me, hoppy is the real thing, the complete cowboy hero. when you see a hopalong cassidy movie you are witnessing the talents of a wonderful actor who gave millions of us the wholesome escape that we all need. today in this era of “reality” entertainment, and violent and raw movie making, hoppy' s films seem more important than ever. if given a choice, i' d ride on over to the bar 20 with hoppy and topper every time .
a very interesting read, rather indicative of early western lit. a real shoot -' em - up of a book, with lots of us - vs - them situations, more of a collection short stories than a full - fledged novel. i' m glad i read it, but it satisfied my itching for a hopalong cassidy book .
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released on february 25, 1938: hopalong cassidy travels to new mexico to help his old girlfriend defend herself and her ranch from the villain rancher clay allison .
i' ve always loved
hopalong (bill) cassidy
since i was a child (1950) strictly through the movies. watched everything collected all audio and videos of. now for the first time i decided to go back to his roots and the written word of
clarence e. mulford
. this was the greatest discovery in my lifetime joy of hoppy! mulford had the true gift of spinning a western tale and giving us the bar - 20 and all those wonderful colorful characters. this is his first and it was awesome! clarence wrote 28 hoppy western novels. (i' m beginning the 2nd (the orphan) as soon as finish this review) louis l' amour loved mulfords stories so much he wrote 4 hoppy novels after mulford retired. (mulford picked l' amour as his successor !) so how can you lose two great western writers in kahoots
against a background of exceptional mountain photography, hoppy rushes to rid former sweetheart nora blake and pappy' s range of rustlers and bad guys .
follow your stars in peace, old timer, ” he says with breaking voice, as he fights back tears. the handsome, silver - haired cowboy holds tight to his friend who has just died in his arms after being shot in the back. without another spoken word, the scene moves from sorrow to revenge. his tear - filled eyes turn icy as he stares out over the empty prairie. there is no doubt he will avenge the murder. the handsome cowboy is hopalong cassidy; the old friend is uncle ben; and the movie, the first of the hopalong cassidy series, hopalong cassidy enters (originally hop - along cassidy, 1935). the actor who created this touching scene, the talented william boyd .
poor hoppy. you would think the guy would deserve a vacation and he' s taking some time away from the bar 20 to go on a trip to new york. central park, barnum' s museum, and delmonico' s, all that the big apple had to offer then. but an appeal from gwen gaze the new owner of a mine to look into the death of her father and hoppy can' t turn her down. in fact she' s got a bit of a thing for that gallant knight of the plains. what' s happening is that a neighboring mine owner has tunneled into gaze' s mine and has been pilfering large amounts of ore. that' s a dirty little secret he wants to keep. but bill boyd smells it out and he concocts a plan to catch them in the act. part of it is for gabby hayes to put on a deaf act as a night watchman. it' s a pretty funny bit, worth seeing the film for. plus a nice action filled shootout at the end. all you could desire from a hopalong cassidy film .
premise: the silver - haired hero dressed in black first rode tall as the star of b westerns from 1935 - 48. based on clarence e. mulford' s stories, the character of hopalong cassidy was portrayed in the movies and on tv by former silent - screen idol william boyd, who, … (more )
william boyd certainly followed through on his own advice and for the rest of his career he would only do this one role. he portrayed hopalong in sixty - six movies and fifty - two television episodes as he lived the life of the honorable cowboy, on and off the screen. in essence, he became hopalong cassidy .
hoppy has to bust up a gang of outlaws with the help of his sidekicks shanghai and johnny. as usual, he walks through the fusillade unscathed .
the silver - haired hero dressed in black first rode tall as the star of b westerns from 1935 - 48. based on clarence e. mulford' s stories, the character of hopalong cassidy was portrayed in the movies and on tv by former silent - screen idol william boyd, who, in the early years of television, amassed a fortune by buying the rights to and telecasting his ol (more… )
clarence edward mulford was the author of hopalong cassidy, written in 1904. he wrote it in fryeburg, maine, united states, and the many stories and 28 novels were followed by radio, feature film, television, and comic book versions. clarence was born in streator, illinois. he died of complications from surgery in portland, maine. he set aside much of his money from his book for local charities .
and contrary to what some say, in hopalong cassidy returns (1936), he delivers a soft and touching screen kiss to the lady outlaw, lilli marsh (evelyn brent), who is dying in his arms. it was her last request. mrs. boyd assured me that hoppy had to kiss her as a gentleman for it was her dying wish to be kissed by hopalong cassidy. it is one of the great screen kisses in the movies .
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his words are beautiful in their own right, “follow your stars in peace, ” but the actor' s delivery adds so much to the sentiments the writer had in mind. william boyd created many such scenes as he gave his characters a distinctive believability and reality. his greatest gift to all of us who are fans was his own special version of hopalong cassidy. millions of us fell in love with this character, young and old, men and women, boys and girls .
the very different hopalong cassidy we saw in the movies was the creation of william boyd. if he were here today, boyd would share the credit of hoppy’s popularity with his co - stars, producers, directors, writers, movie crews, even the breath - taking locations of lone pine where so many of the hoppy movies were filmed. however, in truth, the “hoppy” we still cherish is mostly due to the work of one fine actor who took a literary character, made him his own, and then shared him with all of us. the best words to sum up william boyd’s “hoppy” came from his lovely wife, grace bradley boyd: “he was absolutely charismatic, everything went together—his face, his eyes, his body, his voice … he was just hoppy. ” of all the b western movie stars, william boyd was the best, as evidenced by his body of work stretching back to the days of the silent movies. one man in particular proved his belief in boyd' s talent by starring him in important films—this man was a legend in his own right, cecil b. demille .
the silver - haired hero dressed in black first rode tall as the star of b westerns from 1935 - 48. based on clarence e. mulford' s stories, the character of hopalong cassidy was portrayed in the movies and on tv by former silent - screen idol william boyd, who, in the early years of television, amassed a fortune by buying the rights to and telecasting his old westerns (he also made new hopalong films for tv). what followed was nothing less than a national licensing rage for all things hoppy .
cassidy could fan a gun like a bill the kid... six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. no one in the state of texas could beat him. until he met slim travennes, head of the sandy creek vigilante committee. slim was snake - fast. no man could go up against him and live. no man. hoppy could stand or die. he had no other choice. none at all .
excellent chapter in the hopalong cassidy series. with a cast of william boyd, george
superman
reeves and robert mitchum and first class story you will enjoy the 54 minutes of suspense and action this film delivers. victor jory who in real life is the us coast guard wrestling and boxing champion plays the stereo - typical bad guy. this film has robberies, dry gulching and shoot outs... everything a good family hour program should have: - )
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the stories give you a sense of life in the late 1800s. trail dust (1936) is one of the best cattle - drive films ever made, and texas trail, (1937) where hoppy and his boys round up a giant herd of wild horses offers spectacular outdoor scenes. there were no cars or radio shows or musical interruptions. with all due respect to the singing cowboys, theirs was just a whole different form of western movie .
what william boyd brought to his hopalong cassidy was sincerity of character. in boyd’s own words, “you have to understand the character you are playing and simply live him. the camera will show you up if you’re just acting. you have to be terribly sincere and natural. you must have the whole personality and history of your character inside your head and then just open up your face and let the audience see what’s going on there. you’re not acting then, you just are. ”
listend to this one on my kindle. i' m sorry it took me this long to get to it. there' s lots of hilarious dialogue and situations. note that this isn' t really a novel per se. it' s more a collection of individual incidents, althoguh some of them are marginally related. the characters are fascinating, larger than life. it' s much in the tradition of the texas tall tale. at times you almost expect pecos bill to show up .
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an example of his screen presence can be seen in hills of old wyoming made in 1937, with top billing going of course to william boyd as hopalong cassidy. eighteen minutes into the movie and our hero is yet to be seen. meanwhile, hoppy’s two pals, lucky jenkins (russell hayden) and windy halliday (george hayes), are in trouble with the indian agents. they have accused the indians of rustling cattle and are being taken to jail by the villainous indian agent played by morris ankrum and his henchmen. riding up the trail in handcuffs our two heroes look lost until we see windy look up the trail and exclaim, “hoppy. ” audience expectations soar as hopalong cassidy, calmly sitting on his horse, blocks the trail. “what seems to be the trouble here? ” he says. no gunplay (yet), no harsh words, just a calm assurance that often hid the seriousness of hoppy’s emotions. one has to be able to sell such a scene with a look, a presence, and william boyd does that. we have waited almost twenty minutes to see hoppy, and when he enters, the effect is understated, yet powerful. that is when the goose bumps begin .
total disregard for life, women, reality; if that' s what you like this is your book. mind you, i am a fantasy fan, but this book has nothing to do with the genre - it' s just baloney. i' m also a fan of historical fiction, and generally any kind of good writing, including colloquial speech where appropriate. can' t say i found any of that going on... although there was was lots of
yu this
and
fer th' that
. read a bit if it interests you; this is a loosely organized batch of stories where most
turns into a real good hopalong cassidy feature, the 16th in line, thanks to the old gal gertrude hoffman! in fact it was the old peoples episode for frank darien as pappy was the most prominent of the hero trio even if william boyd will get the bad guy in the end. got it' s slow parts, and it is a b - western, but this one delivers way above average for a 30s cowboy flick .
total disregard for life, women, reality; if that' s what you like this is your book. mind you, i am a fantasy fan, but this book has nothing to do with the genre - it' s just baloney. i' m also a fan of historical fiction, and generally any kind of good writing, including colloquial speech where appropriate. can' t say i found any of that going on... although there was was lots of
yu this
and
fer th' that
. read a bit if it interests you; this is a loosely organized batch of stories where most of the characters end up dead. there is no plot, so you can stop anywhere and not miss anything, because you already know what' s coming next .
: i' ll be on my way first thing in the morning, if someone will show me the way out of these durn buttes .
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a crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend hoppy to take the job of marshal in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners .
outlaw miners have been stealing ore from ann dennis' mine. hoppy spends much of his time running around in the mine shafts tracking down the crooks .
disguising himself as a milquetoast easterner who writes western novels, hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner' s husband .
hoppy' s brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. to get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man .
unlike so many contemporary actors who rely on their looks, william boyd also had an emotional presence. he could create the mood of the scene with just a look, or the tone of his voice. he wasn’t afraid to have hoppy show his feelings, whether it was anger or confidence, sadness, or fear .
when hoppy' s falsely accused young friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape from jail, an embittered hoppy is blamed and drummed out of the texas rangers .
hopalong cassidy gallops to the rescue once again in this seventh entry in the long - running series. this time the trouble begins when bad - guys begin harassing the townsfolk. in desperation, hoppy' s former gal sends him a plea for help. with guns a - blazing, he gets there just in time to round' em up and throw' em in the hoosegow .
william boyd’s hopalong cassidy was multi - faceted. he was good, honest, brave, and tough. he was also funny, caring, loyal and not afraid to show his emotions. he wasn’t a superman—he got shot, tied up, put in jail, and knocked around. he was the smartest cowboy, fastest gun, toughest fighter, and best rider in the west .
mark jackson has a scheme to get adams' land. his gang robs adams' fiancé of her jewels, robs hoppy of his cattle money, and then gives that money to adams to buy back the jewels in exchange for a deed to his land. but lin recognizes the bills and hoppy and his pals go after the robbers .
an evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself .
when three texas rangers try to investigate kidnapped mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of silver bullet, they are framed for murder by the town' s corrupt sheriff .
for nationally syndicated television presentation beginning in 1948 and continuing thereafter for many years, as a result of their phenomenal success. each feature was re - edited to 54 minutes so as to comfortably fit into a 60 minute time slot, with six minutes for commercials. it was not until 50 years later that, with the cooperation of mrs. boyd. i. e .
william l. boyd was born june 5, 1895 near cambridge, ohio. his family moved to tulsa, oklahoma when he was a boy. tragically, in 1913 his father was killed in a job - related accident. like so many young men at that time the young william boyd took on a succession of odd jobs, including work at lumber camps and grocery stores. he even got into acting and by the late teens, he was getting roles in hollywood. working as a lowly extra in the movie why change your wife starring gloria swanson, he came to the attention of director cecil b. demille. the great c. b. liked the looks of this handsome, prematurely - gray young man and signed him to a contract at the princely sum of $ 30 a week .
buck colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing its line through their property. till now they have been able to charge tolls on herds... see full summary »
lots of fancy dude words so the three stars are for language. but it was a shock to apprehend that we were glorifying what today would probably be defined as lawless, racist, sexist, destructive gang behavior. no need to read any more for me, thanks. clearly written, i believe (and could be way, way wrong) from the comfort of a seat by the fire somewhere in new england? : - )
astride his white charger, topper, hoppy seemed to fill the screen, and his silver hair and blue eyes showed through even in black and white films. broad shouldered, sitting tall in the saddle, he had that special thing called screen presence that so few have. although his early movies are very entertaining, it was not until he found hoppy that this special something happened. just as there is only one “james bond”, sean connery, there is only one “hopalong cassidy”, and that is william boyd .
grace bradley turned out to be the perfect match for william boyd. she gave up her acting career and lovingly became
mrs. hopalong cassidy”—in fact, that' s the way she would sign her autographs. the couple remained together until hoppy' s passing in 1972. grace continued to carry on his legacy, speaking to hoppy fans and visiting with them at film conventions until she passed away on her 97th birthday, september 21, 2010. their love is the true love songwriters glorify, and hopeless romantics like me dream about .
, that they were finally restored to their original length with their original opening and closing credits intact. since the original running time of this one was 54 minutes, it' s the only one which was not re - edited for television .
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when william boyd was on screen as hoppy, the attention of every viewer was his. he had a smile that charmed women, pleased children, endeared him to his saddle pals, and very often drove his adversaries crazy. his voice could go from a gentle, “how do you do, ma' am? ” to the growl of a lion when telling an enemy attempting to draw a gun on him under a table to, “put it away. ” he had a belly laugh that will never be imitated successfully, though some have tried .
boyd eventually was given roles in such silent greats as the king of kings, the road to nowhere, and two arabian knights, the last of which was directed by another hollywood great, lewis milestone. his first starring role came in the 1926 de mille silent epic, the volga boatman, which was seen by a young teen - aged girl in new york named grace bradley, who fell in love with the silver - haired screen idol. she would go on to become an actress in hollywood and later play a lasting role in william boyd’s life .
his screen presence is two - fold with both physical and emotional aspects. physically, he was handsome with silver hair and blue eyes, a charming smile and an impressive build. in 1941, he was 46 years old and was as trim and chiseled as his 20 - year - old co - stars. the way he walked and carried himself in the saddle was striking. it was said he wanted younger, handsome sidekicks like jimmy ellison (johnny nelson) or russell hayden (lucky jenkins) to take over the romance in the films because he didn’t want to play that role anymore. however, for women like me, he was the one. i once remarked to mrs. boyd that when i watch a hopalong movie, it isn’t “johnny” or “lucky”, the handsome sidekick, i am watching, it’s hoppy. i know she understood what i meant. in her own words, “he was absolutely charismatic. ”
bill boyd was your typical hollywood movie star of his day. he liked wine, and women, and enjoyed his success, until fate dealt a nasty blow. another actor with the same name, william boyd, was arrested during a gambling and drinking party. the press ran the story using the photo of our william boyd by mistake and his career plummeted. the paper ran a retraction, but the damage was done. (editor' s note: to avoid confusion, film buffs refer to that other william boyd as
stage
boyd due to his career on stage, while our william boyd is, naturally, referred to as
hoppy
boyd. )
when he came to pick her up at her mother’s house, grace described what happened: “he was at the bottom of the stairs with mother. when i reached him, he opened his arms and i walked right into them. it was very special, and then it went very well. ” three weeks to the day, they were married on june 5, 1937, his birthday .
hoppy' s friend dennis owns a rich gold mine. frazier who owns the adjoining mine and wants the dennis mine, has dennis killed. hoppy steps in to take over running the dennis mine and learns frazier' s men sneak into and work the dennis mine at night. hoppy captures one of frazier' s men only to be captured in return by frazier and left to die in a burning building .
this is one of the worst hoppy films. the plot was unbelievable and weak. the comic sidekick (frank darien as pappy) was also among the worst in the series. * * * spoliers. * * * hoppy is out to help his girl friend whose ranch is being rustled and preyed upon by local rustlers - land grabbers, led by clay allison. for no good workable reason (from my viewpoint) hoppy lets himself get arrested and imprisoned for trespassing (or whatever), and then he convinces allison to put hoppy on parole and work his time out at allison' s ranch. in short order, hoppy sees allison' s men maybe rustling nora' s cattle. so hoppy rides off to see nora. (what about his parole agreement ?) meanwhile, fred is the only witness to see allison shoot nora' s partner (or foreman) dead. for no real good reason that i could see, fred' s mom suspects her son as involved in the murder and has the son placed in jail! none of this really matters because allison finally decides to have his gang descend on hoppy and everyone else at nora' s ranch, but they are beaten back and allison is killed. not much of a good plot .
another key aspect of william boyd’s hopalong movies was their authenticity. his clothes were plain and his horse didn’t do tricks, although to watch that magnificent white horse was a treat in itself. topper was a handsome horse, big and broad - chested. he loved to run and always seemed to know where the camera was. you can catch him nudging hoppy in the back when he' s trying to deliver his dialogue. sometimes topper seems to speak himself when he' s bobbing his head up and down and making his silver bridle rattle and shake. in that same goodbye scene in three men from texas, topper and lucky’s horse, banjo, nuzzle each other as if they were saying good - bye themselves. the greatest director in the world couldn’t have asked for a better take than that one. topper added his own charm to the hoppy movies, and kids of all ages loved him .
for most of us, there isn’t a hoppy movie that we don’t like, but we all have our favorites. i would have to say mine is three men from texas (1940). this one has everything: action, comedy, romance, drama, and it was shot in my favorite location, lone pine, california. in it, william boyd’s talents show through in every scene. the premise is that lucky jenkins, hoppy’s protégé, wants to go out on his own and prove himself as a lawman. hoppy isn’t sure his friend is ready to be a bat masterson or a wyatt earp. in one of the most touching scenes between these two characters lucky tells hoppy, “there’s only one man i want to be like and i guess you know who that is, hoppy. ” the love that shows in hopalong’s face—in william boyd’s face—as he looks at his young friend is the unspoken love between a father and a son .
the same year they met, 1937, grace and bill had another very important meeting. on a visit to a ranch, they found a magnificent white horse. grace named him topper, and this is the horse hoppy would ride up to the end of his career. the two would appear together not just in movies, but in parades and all the other personal appearances william boyd made. when topper died, boyd said he would never ride another horse—there was only one topper .
the scene i referred to in the introduction is one of the most poignant i have ever seen. holding his fallen saddle pal, who was portrayed by george hayes, hoppy looks out over the empty prairie with the same emptiness in his heart. you can see it in his eyes and you can hear the sadness in his voice as it breaks. and you feel it by the lump that forms in your throat as you hear, “follow your stars in peace, old timer. ”
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an attempt to clean up a town lands hoppy and lucky on a work farm. hoppy: william boyd. lucky: russell hayden. nora: nora lane. clay: robert fiske .
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william boyd would tell you his life changed for the better after he met hoppy, but there was a real - life person who also had a profound impact on him. in 1937, he met that teenage girl who earlier had fallen in love with his image in the volga boatman. now a beautiful young actress in hollywood, she met boyd on a blind date. at first, when he called her up and said he was william boyd, she hesitated, thinking it was a friend playing a joke. but when she said something amusing, his distinctive hoppy laugh was a clear giveaway. she now knew it really was her screen idol, and she agreed to go out with him .
in the scene where lucky leaves to become a sheriff, he and hoppy must go their separate ways. hoppy tells his friend, “so long, kid, and remember, the fastest gunman in the world can be outsmarted, if you can’t outdraw him. ” lucky rides ahead turns and waves goodbye. hoppy waves back, turns and rides away. the sadness hoppy is feeling can be seen by the way he sits in the saddle, his head is down and his shoulders forward, as if he has lost his only son. again, emotion without a spoken word, something a silent film star like bill boyd understood instinctively .
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caldwell and nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the sheriff for not catching the robbers. with her father the sheriff under pressure, mary sends for hoppy who finds the... see full summary »
lorna drake has inherited a ranch. hoppy teaches her a bit about ranching and handles scar lewis, the bad guy, in the process .
an evil deputy is using indian half - breeds to rustle cattle. this causes trouble between the cattlemen and indians. hoppy, windy and lucky see that justice is served. songs abound .
on a cattle drive hoppy, camp cook windy, companion lucky, and young artie peters encounter an eccentric professor. the professor professes to be searching for the evolutionary missing link... see full summary »
stagecoach robbers take the money hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so hoppy, california and lin go after them .
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sheriff hoppy has to find a way to bring the bad guys, headed by tom jordan, to justice in the lone star state. the problem is that they are hiding out beyond his jurisdiction, in oklahoma .
joe weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. the idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. hoppy and the good guys won' t let this happen .
to obtain water rights, bad guy mark foster murders the heir to a cattle ranch and puts an imposter in his place .
respected black cavalry sergeant brax rutledge stands court - martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer .
hoppy, lucky and california search for a mine owned by trudy pendleton after it was taken from her by the swindling gambler ace gibson. they find the mine and hoppy fights gibson over it .
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hoppy, johnny and windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought - stricken north .
an evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. each cattleman blames the other for missing cattle... . see full summary »
hoppy and new sidekick california carlson head to california to help out lucky jenkins .
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when the outlaw el toro saves hoppy' s life, hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson .
ranch owner sally jordan is engaged in a fence war with rancher big john trumbull. hoppy and johnny, along with trusty sidekick windy, side with sally jordan. they control a huge cattle stampede by using dynamite .
rancher arnold sends for hoppy and red to help fight the cattle rustler nevada and his gang. hoppy poses as a gambler to get on nevada' s ranch and meet the snuff taking boss who pictures himself another napoleon. hoppy' s smoke signal alerts arnold' s men leading to a massive gunfight .
: no, no friends. just a man i' ve got a little score to settle with .
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cassidy of bar 20 is a 1938 american western film directed by lesley selander and written by norman houston . the film stars william boyd , russell hayden , frank darien , nora lane , robert fiske and john elliott . the film was released on february 25 , 1938 , by paramount pictures . 
cassidy of bar 20 is a 1938 american western film directed by lesley selander and written by norman houston. the film stars william boyd, russell hayden, frank darien, nora lane, robert fiske and john elliott. the film was released on february 25, 1938, by paramount pictures.
cassidy of bar 20 is a 1938 american western film directed by lesley selander and written by norman houston. the film stars william boyd, russell hayden, frank darien, nora lane, robert fiske and john elliott. the film was released on february 25, 1938, by paramount pictures.