| Wild West Days | |
| Director: | Ford Beebe Clifford Smith |
| Producer: | Ben Koenig Henry MacRae |
| Starring: | Johnny Mack Brown George Shelley Lynn Gilbert Frank Yaconelli Bob Kortman Russell Simpson Walter Miller |
| Music: | Charles Previn |
| Cinematography: | Richard Fryer |
| Editing: | Saul A. Goodkind Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
| Studio: | Universal Pictures |
| Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
| Runtime: | 268 minutes (13 episodes) |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
This serial was based on the novel "Saint Johnson" by William R. Burnett. However, the main character in the serial is a frontiersman called Kentucky Wade instead of Wayt Johnson as in the novel.[1]
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