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Zane Grey (novel)
Norman Houston (writer)
Release Date:
25 December 1944 (USA) more
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Hot Lead Answers A Claim-Jumping Gang! more
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Just as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his #7000 in yellowbacks and heads out to buy mining equipment... more | add synopsis
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Introducing Robert Mitchum more (4 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Robert Mitchum | ... | Jim 'Nevada' Lacy (as Bob Mitchum) | |
| Anne Jeffreys | ... | Julie Dexter | |
| Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams | ... | Dusty | |
| Nancy Gates | ... | Hattie Ide | |
| Richard Martin | ... | Chito Jose Gonzales Bustamante Rafferty | |
| Craig Reynolds | ... | Cash Burridge | |
| Harry Woods | ... | Joe Powell | |
| Edmund Glover | ... | Ed Nelson, Assayer | |
| Alan Ward | ... | Sheriff William H. Brewer | |
| Harry McKim | ... | Marvie Ide | |
| Larry Wheat | ... | Ben Ide | |
| Jack Overman | ... | Croupier Red Berry | |
| Emmett Lynn | ... | 'Pancake' Comstock |
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62 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (certificate #10485)
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It's always interesting to speculate on how different careers turn. RKO Pictures needed a new B western star because Tim Holt was going in the service. So this guy Mitchum was spotted in one of the Hopalong Cassidy films he played a bit role in and in fact Mitchum had done other parts like Thirty Second Over Tokyo, etc. So he got signed to a long term contract with RKO for this to be the first in a series of B Westerns.
To show how much he was supposed to be a Tim Holt stand-in, Mitch was given Richard Martin who played Chito Rafferty the same part he played as Holt's sidekick. He also got a second sidekick in Guinn Williams. And the billing for Nevada read "introducing Robert Mitchum."
The western itself is standard fare, nothing truly spectacular about it. It's source was a Zane Grey story which is a plus. But even then you could tell the camera loved Robert Mitchum. It's a must for Mitchum fans of which I'm one.
The thing I wonder about though is if William Wellman hadn't spotted Mitchum and given him that career making part in The Story of GI Joe, would Mitch have continued as a B western star with his career petering out in the mid 50s or earlier. Food for thought.