West of Carson City (1940)
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.
Cast
Johnny Mack Brown
Jim Bannister
Bob Baker
Nevada
Fuzzy Knight
Banjo
Peggy Moran
Millie Harkins
Harry Woods
Mack Gorman
Robert Homans
Judge Harkins
Roy Barcroft
Bill Tompkins
Charles King
Henchman Drag
Frank Mitchell
Henchman Breed
Edmund Cobb
Stagedriver Sleepy (as Eddie Cobb)
Ted Wells
Slim, Circle X CowhandRecommendations
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