The Law Comes to Gunsight

The Law Comes to Gunsight

ONLY THE VULTURES Could COUNT The DEAD! Until A Battle-Hardened Sheriff Swept The West Clean Of The Outlaws Who Plagued It!

1947 · 56 min · ★ 6.7 · Western

Brown arrives in the town of, yes, Gunsight, in the company of saddle pal Raymond Hatton. Like a new broom, Brown sweeps clean, going after the town's corrupt element.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer · Written by J. Benton Cheney

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