The Man from Tumbleweeds

The Man from Tumbleweeds

HERE COMES BILL with both guns blazing...blasting the bandits from the range!

NR 1940 · 59 min · ★ 5.0 · Western

Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis · Written by Charles F. Royal

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