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 - A Al K. Hall Lem Howard
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Roy Barcroft Bill Tompkins -
Charles King Henchman Drag -
Frank Mitchell Henchman Breed -
Edmund Cobb Stagedriver Sleepy (as Eddie Cobb) - J Jack Roper Henchman Larkin
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