West of Carson City

Overview

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

Top cast

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

Roy Barcroft

Bill Tompkins

Charles King

Henchman Drag

Frank Mitchell

Henchman Breed

Edmund Cobb

Stagedriver Sleepy (as Eddie Cobb)

J

Jack Roper

Henchman Larkin

Ted Wells

Slim, Circle X Cowhand

J

Jack Shannon

Cowhand Pete

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