Carson City( 1952)

TV-MAWestern

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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.

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
Thurston Hall
Charles Crocker
Vince Barnett
Henry
Ida Moore
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Sarah Edwards
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Iris Adrian
Saloon Girl in Fight (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Sun Feb 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...