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The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West

RELEASED 22 May 19474h 45m★ 7.2 TMDB

Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.

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Columbia Pictures' 1947 live-action theatrical serial, also marketed as The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West. This entry covers all 15 chapters; watch them in numbered order. Ralph Byrd plays Greg Saunders / the Vigilante, a different character from Adrian Chase. A separate adaptation with no other DC title required.

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The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West is title 30 of 67 in our Live-action Elseworlds viewing sequence. This fifteen-chapter Columbia serial follows Greg Saunders, the original Vigilante, in his own western adventure. Watch its chapters in numbered order. He is a different Vigilante from Adrian Chase, and neither Peacemaker nor Arrow belongs before this story.

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Cast

Ralph ByrdGreg Sanders / The Vigilante
Ramsay AmesBetty Winslow
Lyle TalbotGeorge Pierce
George Offerman, Jr.Stuff
Robert BarronPrince Hamil
Hugh ProsserPolice Capt. Reilly
Jack IngramSilver / X-2
Eddie ParkerDoc / X-3
Tiny BrauerThorne, a.k.a. X-9 [Chs.9-11,14-15] (as Bill Brauer)

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