Carson City

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Carson City (1952)

NR 06/13/1952 (US) Western 1h 27m

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He comes tearing in with a gun and a grin ... to carve a new notch in the Silver Belt of Nevada !

Overview

Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

Sloan Nibley

Screenplay, Story
André de Toth

Director
Winston Miller

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Randolph Scott

Silent Jeff Kincaid
Lucille Norman

Susan Mitchell
Raymond Massey

Big Jack Davis
Richard Webb

Alan Kincaid
James Millican

Jim Squires
Larry Keating

William Sharon
George Cleveland

Henry Dodson
William Haade

Hardrock Haggerty
Don Beddoe

Charles Crocker
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A review by John Chard

60%

Written by John Chard on February 19, 2017

Proposed Railroad Is Threat To Carson City.

Carson City is directed by André De Toth and written by Sloan Nibley and Winston Miller. It stars Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey, Richard Webb and James Millican. Music is scored by David Buttolph and cinematography by John Boyle. Plot finds Scott as engineer Jeff Kincaid, who clashes with bandits and town locals when he is hired to build a new rail track through Carson City.

Based in Nevada but filmed in Bronson Canyon in California, Carson City is routine stuff that still manages to come out in credit by the end. Story is set u... read the rest.

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