
19/01/1940
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.

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

Edmund Cobb
as Stagedriver Sleepy (as Eddie Cobb)

Jack Roper
as Henchman Larkin

Ted Wells
as Slim, Circle X Cowhand

Jack Shannon
as Cowhand Pete
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