# Topa Topa

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{{short description|1938 film}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Use American English|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Topa Topa
| image = Topa Topa poster.jpg
| caption =
| director = [Charles Hutchison](/source/Charles_Hutchison) <br> [Vin Moore](/source/Vin_Moore)
| producer = [William M. Vogel](/source/William_M._Vogel) 
| writer = {{ubl|Charles Diltz|[Hilda May Young](/source/Hilda_May_Young)}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[Joan Valerie](/source/Joan_Valerie)|[James Bush](/source/James_Bush_(actor))|[LeRoy Mason](/source/LeRoy_Mason)}}
| music = [Edward Kilenyi](/source/Edward_Kilenyi)
| cinematography = Robert Doran
| editing = Charles Diltz
| studio = Franklyn Warner Productions 
| distributor = {{ubl|Pennant Pictures|[Grand National Pictures](/source/Grand_National_Pictures)}}
| released = {{Film date|1938|03|17}}
| runtime = 58 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Topa Topa''''' is a 1938 American [Western film](/source/Western_film) directed by [Charles Hutchison](/source/Charles_Hutchison) and [Vin Moore](/source/Vin_Moore) and starring [Joan Valerie](/source/Joan_Valerie), [James Bush](/source/James_Bush_(actor)) and [LeRoy Mason](/source/LeRoy_Mason). The film was originally distributed by the [Poverty Row](/source/Poverty_Row) company Pennant Pictures, but was rereleased the following year by [Grand National Pictures](/source/Grand_National_Pictures) with the [alternative title](/source/alternative_title) '''''Children of the Wild'''''.<ref>Pitts p.433</ref>

==Plot==
After a dispute between two [fur trapper](/source/fur_trapper)s ends in one being killed, suspicion wrongly falls on the dead man's [wolfdog](/source/wolfdog)

==Cast==
* [Joan Valerie](/source/Joan_Valerie) as Margaret Weston 
* [James Bush](/source/James_Bush_(actor)) as Jim Turner
* [LeRoy Mason](/source/LeRoy_Mason) as Pete Taylor
* [Ruth Coleman](/source/Ruth_Coleman_(actress)) as Laura Morton
* [Jill L'Estrange](/source/Jill_L'Estrange) as Jill Morton
* [Trevor Bardette](/source/Trevor_Bardette) as Joe Morton
* [Fred Santley](/source/Fred_Santley) as Chuck Foster
* [Lyons Wickland](/source/Lyons_Wickland) as The Coroner
* [Patsy Moran](/source/Patsy_Moran_(actress)) as Lydia
* [Murdock MacQuarrie](/source/Murdock_MacQuarrie) as Hunter 
* Silver Wolf as Fangs - the Dog
* Goldie as Goldie - the Eagle

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940''. McFarland & Company, 2005.

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0032666}}

{{Charles Hutchison}}
{{Vin Moore}}

Category:1938 films
Category:1938 adventure films
Category:1938 Western (genre) films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:American adventure films
Category:Films directed by Vin Moore
Category:1938 English-language films
Category:1938 American films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
Category:English-language adventure films

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