West of Carson City (1940)
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.
- Released
- 1940-01-19
- Genres
- Western
- Runtime
- 56 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Ray Taylor, Milton Raison, Sherman L. Lowe, Jack Bernhard
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Johnny Mack Brown as Jim Bannister
- Bob Baker as Nevada
- Fuzzy Knight as Banjo
- Peggy Moran as Millie Harkins
- Harry Woods as Mack Gorman
- Robert Homans as Judge Harkins
- Al K. Hall as Lem Howard
- Roy Barcroft as Bill Tompkins
- Charles King as Henchman Drag
- Frank Mitchell as Henchman Breed
- Edmund Cobb as Stagedriver Sleepy (as Eddie Cobb)
- Jack Roper as Henchman Larkin