Wide Open Town
RUSTLERS TAKE NOTICE! HOPALONG IS OUT TO GET YOU...AND HE'LL STOP AT NOTHING!
Genres
Overview
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
79 min
Release Date
1941-08-08
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
3
William Boyd
Hopalong Cassidy
Russell Hayden
Lucky Jenkins
Andy Clyde
California Carlson
Evelyn Brent
Belle Langtry
Victor Jory
Steve Fraser
Morris Ankrum
Jim Stuart
Cara Williams
Joan Stuart
Glenn Strange
Henchman Ed Stark
Roy Barcroft
Henchman Red
Bob Kortman
Henchman Blackie
Kenneth Harlan
Tom Wilson
Ed Cassidy
Brad Jackson
Wen Wright
Henchman Spike
Chuck Morrison
Block-jawed Henchman Outside Saloon [script name: Joe]
Jack Rockwell
Rancher Feigning Drunkenness
George Cleveland
Pete Carter
Frank Darien
Pop
Ethan Laidlaw
Waiter-Henchman at Jail
Hank Bell
Barfly Telling Steve About Herd
Ed Brady
Man Reading Poster
Ethelreda Leopold
Saloon Girl
Lee Shumway
Bartender Sandy
Rudy Bowman
Barfly (extra)
3.5
Doomed Caravan
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.
1941-01-10 | en
3.5
Forty Thieves
When he runs for sheriff, Hoppy is beaten by Jerry Doyle, the gutless wonder voted for by every crook in town. When Hoppy moves to have the new sheriff impeached, outlaw leader Tad Hammond hires forty gunslingers to stop him. Stop Hoppy? Hah!
1944-06-23 | en
3.0
Pirates on Horseback
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
1941-05-23 | en
5.9
Borrowed Trouble
Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the conflict between school teacher Miss Abott and next door saloon owner Mawson. When Miss Abott disappears, Hoppy gets a clue to her location and rescues her from Mawson's cabin. It looks like Mawson is the man he wants, but Hoppy finds an item that indicates otherwise.
1948-07-23 | en
3.8
False Colors
Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy and his two pals. When the three arrive they find a fake posing as Lawton. When they expose the imposter, Foster gets the Sheriff to jail them for Lawton's murder.
1943-11-05 | en
5.8
In Old Colorado
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.
1941-03-14 | en
4.8
Leather Burners
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
1943-05-28 | en
4.0
Stagecoach War
Hoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob.
1940-07-12 | en
3.8
Riders of the Deadline
When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape from jail, Hoppy is blamed and drummed out of the Texas Rangers.
1943-12-03 | en
5.6
Three Men from Texas
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
1940-11-15 | en
4.0
The Dead Don't Dream
Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but finds the bride-to-be in distress over her uncle, who has suddenly disappeared from the inn. Then Hoppy finds the uncle's body in the shaft of his nearby mine...
1948-04-30 | en
5.3
Colt Comrades
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.
1943-06-18 | en
4.0
Silent Conflict
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.
1948-03-19 | en
5.3
Hoppy Serves a Writ
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
1943-03-12 | en
4.0
Secret of the Wastelands
Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
1941-11-15 | en
3.5
Mystery Man
Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
1944-05-31 | en
3.0
Hoppy's Holiday
Hoppy, California, and Lucky travel to Mesa City for a short vacation. California buys new clothes and carrying his old ones in a suitcase, bumps into escaping bank robbers in the dark. His suitcase gets switched with that of the robbers and he is seen with the money. Hoppy must find the money that has mysteriously disappeared and also the robbers so that he can clear California who is now in jail.
1947-07-18 | en
3.0
Texas Masquerade
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the Night Riders, while the friendly local town lawyer is trying to cajole the cousin into selling out to him. Hoppy begins by arriving in the town, separate from his pals, all spiffed up and dandified, posing as the Eastern lawyer...
1944-02-08 | en
4.0
The Marauders
Hoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church outside a ghost town, only to meet a young woman and her mother there, then find themselves surrounded by a gang of "workmen" intent on tearing down the church if they have to kill the five to do it.
1947-07-01 | en
5.0
Border Vigilantes
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss, and so are the vigilantes.
1941-04-18 | en