The Raiders

Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.

Cast

Brian Keith

as McElroy

Robert Culp

as Wild Bill Hickock

Judi Meredith

as Calamity Jane

Jim McMullan

as Buffalo Bill

Alfred Ryder

as Captain Benton

Simon Oakland

as Sgt. Austin Tremaine

Ben Cooper

as Tom King

Trevor Bardette

as 'Uncle Otto' Strassner

Harry Carey Jr.

as Jellicoe

Richard H. Cutting

as Jack Goodnight

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Someone was clearly on the wrong end of a night on the Bourbon when they concocted this tale of poverty stricken, post US Civil War, ranchers who decide that the only way they can get their meagre cattle herds to market is by forcing the railroad to build a branch line to their Texas backwater. It's...

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