Prairie Stranger
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1941 · 58 min · ★ 7.0 · Music, Western
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.
Directed by Lambert Hillyer · Written by Winston Miller
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Charles Starrett Steven Monroe -
Cliff Edwards 'Bones' Mallory -
Patti McCarty Sue Evans -
Forbes Murray Jud Evans -
Frank LaRue Jim Dawson -
Archie Twitchell Barton -
Francis Walker Craig -
Edmund Cobb Dr. Westridge
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