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The Showdown(1940)
Status: Released
Date: 1940-03-08
60%
2 Votes
Time: 1h 5m
HOPPY'S ON THE LOOSE...bucking a game with the deck stacked against him!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Harry Sherman Productions
Movie: The Showdown
Top 10 Billed Cast
William Boyd
Hopalong Cassidy
Britt Wood
Speedy McGinnis
Russell Hayden
Lucky Jenkins
Jan Clayton
Sue
Morris Ankrum
Baron Rendor
Eddie Dean
Marshal
Donald Kirke
Harry Cole
Roy Barcroft
Bowman
Kermit Maynard
Johnson
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1940-03-08
Average
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Rating:
3.0 startsTagline
HOPPY'S ON THE LOOSE...bucking a game with the deck stacked against him!
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