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.

Cast

Johnny Mack Brown

Jim Bannister

Bob Baker

Nevada

Fuzzy Knight

Banjo

Peggy Moran

Millie Harkins

Harry Woods

Mack Gorman

Robert Homans

Judge Harkins

N/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)

N/A

Jack Roper

Henchman Larkin