WILD WEST DAYS (1937)--colorized

Wild West Days (1937) is a Universal film serial based on a Western novel by W. R. Burnett. Directed by Ford Beebe and Clifford Smith and starring Johnny Mack Brown, George Shelley, Lynn Gilbert, Frank Yaconelli, Bob Kortman, Russell Simpson, and Walter Miller, it was the 103rd of the studio's 137 serials (and the 35th with sound), and was the first of three serials Brown made for the studio before being promoted to his own B-western series in 1939.

Premise
Larry and Lucy Munro own a ranch with a rich platinum deposit. Newspaper editor Matt Keeler as the head of a gang called "Secret Seven" wants the ranch for himself and has Larry framed for murder to get it. Frontiersman Kentucky Wade - with his pals Dude Hanford, Mike Morales and Trigger Benton - come to the Munros' aid.

Cast
Johnny Mack Brown as Kentucky Wade (as John Mack Brown)
George Shelley as Dude Hanford
Lynn Gilbert as Lucy Munro
Frank Yaconelli as Mike Morales
Bob Kortman as Trigger Benton (as Robert Kortman)
Russell Simpson as Matt Keeler
Walter Miller as Doc Hardy
Charles Stevens as Buckskin Frank
Frank McGlynn Jr. as Larry Munro (as Frank McGlynn)
Francis McDonald as Assayer Purvis
Al Bridge as Steve Claggett
Chief Thunderbird as Chief Red Hatchet
Robert McClung as Mouth Organ Kid [Chs. 8-11]
Edward LeSaint as Sheriff (as Ed LeSaint)
Joseph W. Girard as Judge Lawrence
Jack Rube Clifford as Corey (as Jack Clifford)
William Royle as Braden
Bruce Mitchell as Rancher Tobe Driscoll
Miki Morita as Chan, 2nd Cook [Chs. 7, 9, 11-12]