Carson City (1952)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 2.839 |
Directed By
André de Toth
Crew
Winston Miller
David Buttolph
Sloan Nibley
André de Toth
David Weisbart
John W. Boyle
Sidney Cutner
Leo Shuken
Sloan Nibley
G.W. Berntsen
Gordon Bau
Robert L. Swanson
Francis J. Scheid
Stanley Fleischer
Marjorie Best
TOP 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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