The Carson City Kid

Director: Joseph Kane Joseph Kane

Overview

After his brother is murdered, a vengeful cowboy schemes to settle his score with the guilty gambler. This western stars Roy Rogers, with Bob Steele, Noah Beery, Jr. and George "Gabby" Hayes.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/24/2022
UPC:	0885444492938
Original Release:	1940
Rating:	NR
Language:	English
Time:	0:57:00
Sales rank:	61,152

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Roy Rogers	Carson City Kid
George "Gabby" Hayes	Gabby
Bob Steele	Jessup
Noah Beery Jr.	Warren
Pauline Moore	Joby
Francis McDonald	Laramie
Hal Taliaferro	Harmon
Arthur Loft	Kirkie
George Rosener	Tucker
Chester Gan	Wong
Hank Bell	Stage Driver
Ted Mapes	Stage Shotgun Guard
Jack Ingram	Townsman
Dale Evans	Actor
Jack Kirk	Posse Rider
Jack Rockwell	Poker Player
Tom Smith	Townsman
Art Dillard	Barfly
Hal Price	Drunk
Yakima Canutt	Pete the Bartender
Kit Guard	Saloon Waiter
Curley Dresden	Barfly
Oscar Gahan	Saloon Fiddle Player
Chick Hannon	Barfly
Al Taylor	Posse Rider
Fred Burns	Actor

Technical Credits

Joseph Kane

Director,Producer

Editorial Reviews

By 1940, the folks over at Republic Pictures were mighty busy turning the former Leonard Slye into Roy Rogers, ace B-Western hero. Although not the genre superstar that he would become later in the decade -- especially after the studio lost Gene Autry to the war efforts -- Rogers was awarded quite a supporting cast in The Carson City Kid: Bob Steele, fresh from Lewis Milestone's Of Mice and Men (1939) and himself a veteran B-Western star; George "Gabby" Hayes, one of Hollywood's best comic sidekicks, who had just recently left Paramount's Hopalong Cassidy series over a salary dispute; and Noah Beery Jr., young and promising and with a stellar motion picture pedigree. Add the beautiful Pauline Moore and such stalwart Western film regulars as Hal Taliaferro and Yakima Canutt and you have what they used to call a "nervous A," a genre film good enough to play the top half of a double bill. Yet despite all this star quality, the best performance in The Carson City Kid is offered by a less-remembered old-timer, silent screen leading man Francis McDonald, who is quite poignant as a tired old outlaw.