''Slim Carter'' is a 1957 American

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directed by Richard Bartlett and written by

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. The film stars

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, Tim Hovey,

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and

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. The film was released on October 2, 1957, by

Universal-International Pictures Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Americ ...

Plot

Clover Doyle discovers an unpleasant singing cowboy Hughie Mack, and begins promoting him as the ren