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.
Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon...
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a ...
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...
Billy Carson, looking for rustlers, kills Bradley in a gun fight. Arrested, the judge finds him inno...
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western fron...
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a c...
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradu...
Two-fisted cowboys fight for law and order in their encounters with outlaws.
Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Sela...
Billy Carson and Fuzzy Jones have just collected a reward and Fuzzy indulges in a dream of getting a...
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his...
Johnny Mack Brown is sent to the badlands to round up an elusive outlaw gang.
The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. ...
Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posin...
A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious...
The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signa...
West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story tak...
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult t...
Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. T...