West of Carson City

West of Carson City

Blasting wide open the toughest town of the west!

1940 · 56 min · ★ 5.5 · Western

West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern gamblers. When it becomes obvious that the local constabulary has been "bought off" by the crooks, two-fisted cattleman Jim Bannister (Brown) swings into action. The film's highlight is an outsized fistic brawl between the hero and secondary villain Breed, played by loose-limbed comic stuntman Frank Mitchell.

Directed by Ray Taylor · Written by Milton Raison

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Johnny Mack Brown Jim Bannister
Bob Baker Nevada
Fuzzy Knight Banjo
Peggy Moran Millie Harkins
Harry Woods Mack Gorman
Robert Homans Judge Harkins
Al K. Hall Lem Howard
Roy Barcroft Bill Tompkins
Charles King Henchman Drag
Frank Mitchell Henchman Breed
Edmund Cobb Stagedriver Sleepy (as Eddie Cobb)
Jack Roper Henchman Larkin

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