Carson City

Carson City

He comes tearing in with a gun and a grin ... to carve a new notch in the Silver Belt of Nevada !

NR 1952 · 87 min · ★ 6.2 · Western

Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

Directed by André de Toth · Written by Sloan Nibley

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Randolph Scott Silent Jeff Kincaid
Lucille Norman Susan Mitchell
Raymond Massey Big Jack Davis
Richard Webb Alan Kincaid
James Millican Jim Squires
Larry Keating William Sharon
George Cleveland Henry Dodson
William Haade Hardrock Haggerty
Don Beddoe Charles Crocker
Thurston Hall Charles Crocker
Vince Barnett Henry
Ida Moore Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)

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