Lem Howard
West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush 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, two-fisted cattleman Jim Bannister (Brown) swings into action. The film's highlight is an outsized fistic brawl between the hero and secondary villain Breed, played by loose-limbed comic stuntman Frank Mitchell.
Suspect
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
First Subway Man (uncredited)
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
Man in Auto Court Office (uncredited)
세 번의 전과 기록을 갖고 있는 에디 테일러(Eddie Taylor: 헨리 폰다 분)는 사랑하는 여인 조앤 그레이엄(Joan Graham: 실비아 시드니 분)과 조앤을 사랑하는 변호사 스티븐 휘트니(Stephen Whitney: 바톤 맥레인 분)의 도움으로 출감하게 된다. 출감 후 에디는 휘트니가 마련해 준 운수회사에서 조앤과의 달콤한 신혼을 꿈꾸며 새로운 인생을 설계하지만 운수회사 사장은 전과자라는 낙인이 찍인 에디를 작은 꼬투리를 빌미로 몰인정하게 해고하고 만다. 에디는 사장을 찾아가 앞으로 성실하게 일할 것을 다짐하며 사정을 하지만 전과자에 대한 사회의 불신은 에디를 쉽게 받아들이지 않는다. 한편 에디가 전과자라는 것을 안 운수 회사의 동료는 은행을 턴 후 에디가 의심을 받도록 에디의 모자를 현장에 떨어뜨린다. 경찰에 쫓기게 된 에디는 조안을 찾아가 결백을 주장하며 일단 도피할 것을 말하지만 이미 잠복해 있던 경찰에게 붙잡히기 되고, 네 번째 범죄를 저지르면 사형을 당하게 되는 국가법상사형을 선고받는데...
Drunk
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Audience Member (uncredited)
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Spike Henderson
About a woman whose life is almost ruined by the insinuations of a small-town gossip and a brother who falls in with bad company. The film ends with the woman being saved by her upstanding physician husband, whom she meets when her theatre troupe becomes stranded in the town.
