Carson City Raiders

1948 film by Yakima Canutt

May 13, 1948 (1948-05-13) (United States)

Running time

60 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Carson City Raiders is a 1948 American Western film directed by Yakima Canutt and written by Earle Snell. The film stars Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Frank Reicher, Beverly Jons, Harold Landon and Steve Darrell.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

One of the Allan "Rocky" lane series of B-westerns, this has a cast of characters that go beyond the simple hero-villain plots. Steve Darrell, a busy character actor listed seventh in the cast (even below Rocky's horse), is actually the movie's central character: a man tapped to replace a murdered sheriff. When the bad guys realize he's a reformed outlaw, they think they can blackmail them into helping them. Rocky figures it out first, and they join forces. Harold Goodwin stands in for usual action heavy Roy Barcroft in this one, and has such lines as (when he's supposed to rub out a captured outlaw who might talk) "Too bad, I was just gettin' to know the guy."

Cast

Allan Lane as Rocky Lane
Black Jack as Rocky's Horse
Eddy Waller as Nugget Clark
Frank Reicher as Razor the Barber
Beverly Jons as Mildred Drew
Harold Landon as Jimmy Davis
Steve Darrell as Tom Drew aka Fargo Jack
Harold Goodwin as Dave Starky
Dale Van Sickel as Henchman Brennan
Tom Chatterton as John Davis
Edmund Cobb as Old Sheriff
Mike Ragan as Joe
Robert J. Wilke as Ed Noble

References

^ "Carson City Raiders (1948) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
^ Hal Erickson (2016). "Carson-City-Raiders - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
^ "Carson City Raiders". Afi.com. Retrieved November 21, 2015.