''The Carson City Kid'' is a 1940 American
Western
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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 f ...
starring
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following early work under his given name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebra ...
,
George "Gabby" Hayes
George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (7 May 1885 – 9 February 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 film series as the bewhiskered, c ...
, and
Bob Steele.
Plot
The Carson City Kid (
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following early work under his given name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebra ...
) is a
stagecoach 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).
George "Gabby" Hayes
George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (7 May 1885 – 9 February 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 film series as the bewhiskered, c ...
appears as Sheriff Gabby Whittaker.
Cast
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Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following early work under his given name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebra ...
as The Carson City Kid
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George "Gabby" Hayes
George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (7 May 1885 – 9 February 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 film series as the bewhiskered, c ...
as Marshal Gabby Whitaker
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Bob Steele as Lee Jessup / Morgan Reynolds
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Noah Beery, Jr. as Scott 'Arizona' Warren
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Pauline Moore as Joby Madison
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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 ...
as Laramie
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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
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Arthur Loft as Saloon drunk
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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
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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, to Wing Hong Gan and Wong Shee. He went to China ...
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 also as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, inc ...
as Stephen Collins Foster)
* "Camptown Races" (Music and lyrics by Stephen Foster as Stephen Collins Foster)
* "
Polly Wolly Doodle"
* "Little Brown Jug" (Written by
Joseph Winner
Joseph Eastburn Winner (1837–1918) was an American composer and music publisher. He is best known for his tune, " The Little Brown Jug" (1869).
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he operated a publishing business from 1854 to 1907 ...
)
See also
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Public domain film
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Public domain film by country Japan
Many pre-1954 Japanese films have passed into public domain in Japan. See Japanese ...
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List of American films of 1940
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List of films in the public domain in the United States
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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
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