Badlands of Dakota

In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane.

Cast

Robert Stack

as Jim Holliday

Ann Rutherford

as Anne Grayson

Broderick Crawford

as Bob Holliday

Frances Farmer

as Calamity Jane

Lon Chaney Jr.

as Jack McCall

Richard Dix

as James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok

Andy Devine

as Spearfish

Hugh Herbert

as Rocky Plummer

Fuzzy Knight

as Hurricane Harry

Bradley Page

as Jesse Chapman

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