Wildfire (1945 film) explained

Wildfire
Director:	Robert Emmett Tansey
Producer:	William B. David executive Robert L. Lippert
Based On:	story by W.C. Tuttle
Starring:	Bob Steele
Cinematography:	Marcel Le Picard
Editing:	Charles Henkel Jr.
Studio:	Action Pictures
Distributor:	Screen Guild Productions (US) Exclusive (UK)^[1]
Runtime:	1 hour, 2 seconds
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Budget:	$35,000^[2]
Gross:	$350,000

Wildfire, also known as Wildfire: The Story of a Horse in the United Kingdom, is a 1945 American Cinecolor Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and starring Bob Steele.

It was an early film production from Robert L. Lippert.^[2]

Cast

• Bob Steele as "Happy" Haye
• Sterling Holloway as "Alkali" Jones
• John Miljan as Pete Fanning
• Eddie Dean as Sheriff Johnny Deal
• Virginia Maples as Judy Gordon
• Sarah Padden as Aunt Agatha
• Gene Alsace as Henchman Buck Perry
• Francis Ford as Ezra Mills
• William Farnum as Judge Polson
• William 'Wee Willie' Davis as Henchman Moose Harris

Soundtrack

• Eddie Dean – "On the Banks of the Sunny San Juan" (Written by Glenn Strange and Eddie Dean)
• Eddie Dean – "By the Sleepy Rio Grande"

Notes and References

1. News: Wildfire; the story of a horse. 1946. Monthly Film Bulletin. 13. 155. .
2. News: Ryon, A.. Sep 23, 1962. Third-run film king tells industry's woes. Los Angeles Times. .