''The Carson City Kid'' is a 1940 American

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film directed by

Joseph Kane Jasper Joseph Inman Kane (March 19, 1894, San Diego – August 25, 1975, Santa Monica, California) was an American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter. He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on Western ...

starring

Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American singer, actor, television host, and Rodeo, rodeo performer. Following early work under his given name, first as a c ...

George "Gabby" Hayes George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (May 7, 1885 – February 9, 1969) was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western (genre), Western film series as ...

, and Bob Steele.

Plot

The Carson City Kid (

) is a

stagecoach A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, ) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by ...

robber seeking vengeance on Morgan Reynolds ( Bob Steele), the man who killed his brother. Reynolds is travelling with Laramie (

Francis McDonald Francis McDonald (August 22, 1891 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor whose career spanned 52 years. Early years Born on August 22, 1891, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, McDonald was the son of John Francis McDonald and Catherine Ashlu ...

), a notorious half-breed outlaw. Rogers falls in love with saloon singer Joby Madison ( Pauline Moore).

appears as Sheriff Gabby Whittaker.

Cast

as The Carson City Kid *

as Marshal Gabby Whitaker * Bob Steele as Lee Jessup / Morgan Reynolds *

Noah Beery, Jr. Noah Lindsey Beery (August 10, 1913 – November 1, 1994) was an American actor often specializing in warm, friendly character roles similar to many portrayed by his Oscar-winning uncle, Wallace Beery. Unlike his more famous uncle, however, Be ...

as Scott 'Arizona' Warren * Pauline Moore as Joby Madison *

as Laramie *

Hal Taliaferro Floyd Taliaferro Alderson (November 13, 1895 – February 10, 1980) was an American film actor who specialized in westerns. After serving in the Great War, he began his career in the era of silent films, when he frequently used the name Wally ...

as Rick Harmon *

Arthur Loft Arthur Loft (born Hans Peter Loft;"Obituary: Arthur Loft"
''The Los ...

as Saloon drunk *

George Rosener George Michael Rosener (May 26, 1884 – March 29, 1945) was an American film actor and writer. He also wrote and acted in the Frank Buck (animal collector), Frank Buck serial ''Jungle Menace''. Career Rosener began his acting career at ag ...

as Judge Tucker *

Chester Gan Chester Gan (1908-1959) was an American character actor of Chinese descent who worked in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1950s. Biography Chester Gan was born in Grass Valley, California Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, Cali ...

as Wong Lee

Soundtrack

* Pauline Moore – "The Golddigger Song" (Music and lyrics by Peter Tinturin) * Pauline Moore – "You Are the One" (Music and lyrics by Peter Tinturin) * Roy Rogers – "Sonora Moon" (Music and lyrics by Peter Tinturin) * "Oh Susanna" (Music and lyrics by

Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour music, parlour and Folk music, folk music during the Romantic music, Romantic period. He wr ...

as Stephen Collins Foster) * "Camptown Races" (Music and lyrics by Stephen Foster as Stephen Collins Foster) * "

Polly Wolly Doodle "Polly Wolly Doodle" was an American minstrel song that became a popular children's song. It was sung by Dan Emmett's Virginia Minstrels, who premiered the song at New York's Bowery Amphitheatre in February 1843, and is often credited to Emmett ...

" * "Little Brown Jug" (Written by

Joseph Winner Joseph Eastburn Winner (c. 1837–1918) was an American composer and music publisher. He is best known for his tune "Little Brown Jug (song), The Little Brown Jug" (1869). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he operated a publishing ...

)

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* * 1940 films American black-and-white films Republic Pictures films American Western (genre) films 1940 Western (genre) films American romance films 1940s romance films Films directed by Joseph Kane 1940s English-language films 1940s American films English-language Western (genre) films English-language romance films {{1940s-US-Western-film-stub

Plot

Cast

Soundtrack

See also

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