West of Carson City

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

Images

Cast

Johnny Mack Brown

Jim Bannister

Bob Baker

Nevada

Fuzzy Knight

Banjo

Peggy Moran

Millie Harkins

Harry Woods

Mack Gorman

Robert Homans

Judge Harkins

Al K. Hall

Lem Howard

Roy Barcroft

Bill Tompkins

Charles King

Henchman Drag

Frank Mitchell

Henchman Breed

Edmund Cobb

Stagedriver Sleepy (as Eddie Cobb)

Jack Roper

Henchman Larkin

Ted Wells

Slim, Circle X Cowhand

Jack Shannon

Cowhand Pete

Related

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

19726.5out of 10

A Man Called Sledge

19706.1out of 10

There Was a Crooked Man...

19706.8out of 10

Boss Nigger

19756.7out of 10

Return of the Gunfighter

19676.1out of 10

The Proud Rebel

19586.0out of 10

Decision at Sundown

19576.3out of 10

Ramrod

19476.5out of 10

The Harder They Fall

20216.6out of 10

The Westerner

19407.1out of 10

The Missouri Breaks

19766.5out of 10

Barbarosa

19825.9out of 10

The Bravados

19586.6out of 10

Lawman

19716.5out of 10

Go West

19406.6out of 10

Monte Walsh

19706.3out of 10