West of Carson City (1940)

West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Browns Universal westerns The story takes place in a goldrush 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 twofisted cattleman Jim Bannister Brown swings into action The films highlight is an outsized fistic brawl between the hero and secondary villain Breed played by looselimbed comic stuntman Frank Mitchell