West of Carson City (1940)
Blasting wide open the toughest town of the west!
56 min
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.
- Release date
- January 19, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
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
Crew
- Ray Taylor · Director
- Milton Raison · Writer
- Sherman L. Lowe · Writer
- Jack Bernhard · Writer
- Jerome Ash · Cinematographer
- Ray Snyder · Editor