West of Carson City
1940West 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.
Acted in
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