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
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
