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)
Эдди Тэйлор осужденный в третий раз за тяжкие преступления выходит из тюрьмы. Но общество не благосклонно к бывшему преступнику и отвергает его, парень не может найти работу и снять нормальное жилье. Жестоким ударом судьбы становится, сообщение об обнаружении шляпы с его инициалами на месте ограбления банка, где погибли шесть человек охраны. Полиция арестовывает невиновного Эдди, парню грозит пожизненное заключение, все улики против него. Герой решает бежать.
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.
