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Bonanza Town (1951)

Charles "Hot Bullets" STARRET...can't be stopped and Smiley "Hot Ballads" BURNETTE can't be topped!

Genre : Western

Runtime : 56M

Director : Fred F. Sears
Writer : Barry Shipman, Bert Horswell

Synopsis

Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and gets paid with marked bills. He suspects Hardison is Boseman's boss and he is right as Hardison and his men are now planning to get rid of both him and the Durango kid.

Actors

Charles Starrett
Charles Starrett
Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid
Fred F. Sears
Fred F. Sears
Henry Hardison
Luther Crockett
Luther Crockett
Judge Anthony Dillon
Myron Healey
Myron Healey
Krag Boseman
Charles Horvath
Charles Horvath
Henchman Smoker
Slim Duncan
Slim Duncan
Slim Duncan
Smiley Burnette
Smiley Burnette
Smiley Burnette
I. Stanford Jolley
I. Stanford Jolley
Borger (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crews

Fred F. Sears
Fred F. Sears
Director
Barry Shipman
Barry Shipman
Screenplay
Bert Horswell
Bert Horswell
Screenplay

Posters and backgrounds

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