Western

Carson City

- He comes tearing in with a gun and a grin ... to carve a new notch in the Silver Belt of Nevada !

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.

Release Date : 1952-06-13

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Silent Jeff Kincaid

Original Name : Randolph Scott

Gender : Male

Character Name : Susan Mitchell

Original Name : Lucille Norman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Big Jack Davis

Original Name : Raymond Massey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alan Kincaid

Original Name : Richard Webb

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jim Squires

Original Name : James Millican

Gender : Male

Character Name : William Sharon

Original Name : Larry Keating

Gender : Male

Character Name : Henry Dodson

Original Name : George Cleveland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hardrock Haggerty

Original Name : William Haade

Gender : Male

Character Name : Charles Crocker

Original Name : Don Beddoe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Charles Crocker

Original Name : Thurston Hall

Gender : Male

Character Name : Henry

Original Name : Vince Barnett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)

Original Name : Ida Moore

Gender : Female

Character Name : Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)

Original Name : Sarah Edwards

Gender : Female

Character Name : Saloon Girl in Fight (uncredited)

Original Name : Iris Adrian

Gender : Female

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

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 up around the building of the railroad between Carson City and Virginia, Scott and his rugged band of engineers have their work cut out in more ways than one. When a major player who is opposed to the railroad is murdered, it's no surprise who is going to get the blame. Cue dastardly goings on, sabotage, heroics and much macho posturing. In the mix is a love interest for Randolph, courtesy of a lifeless Lucille Norman, but naturally the trajectory of true love is not straightforward. Railroad Workers Terrorise Town! De Toth came on board late in production after Michael Curtiz baulked at trying the new Warnercolor process (this was the first film to use the process). De Toth went on record to say he only did the film for the money, but he gets much entertainment from a pretty standard script. Action quota is high, with exploding rocks, wagon over a cliff, stagecoach heist, train robbery, saloon brawls and great drama garnered out of a landslide/rescue passage of play. For Scott fans it's a pleasurable watch as it finds him in typically upright and stoic form, in fact the first time we see him he is indulging in a good old knuckle fight. Though asking us to accept his romance with Norman when there is 20 years between the two actors is a bit of a stretch. The scenery is pleasing yet the Warnercolor is as lifeless as Norman's performance, but the print of the film is in good shape and as long as Western fans prepare for standard formula dressed up nicely, then they should enjoy it well enough. 6.5/10