It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) comes to the aid of Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell), who has taken over the telegraph-line business established by her uncle John (Henry Hall). The latter was murdered by outlaws who don't cotton to having the territory linked up electronically with the rest of the world.
Billy Carson, looking for rustlers, kills Bradley in a gun fight. Arrested, the judge finds him inno...
Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posin...
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a ...
The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. ...
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his...
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western fron...
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradu...
Billy Carson and Fuzzy Jones have just collected a reward and Fuzzy indulges in a dream of getting a...
The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signa...
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afou...
In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.
Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. T...
In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge's son from going to jail by ...
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted weste...
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War ...
A singing frontier judge (Gene Autry) dismisses a case of double jeopardy.
A lawman who brings in a killer only to see him freed because of corruption turns in his badge &...
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a c...