Boss of Hangtown Mesa

BULLETS BLAST THE BADLANDS!...as a two-gun terror blazes the Western trail of the Telegraph!

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1942 / 58min.

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Genres

Western

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Fuzzy Knight

Johnny Mack Brown

Rex Lease

Fred Kohler Jr.

Hugh Prosser

William Farnum

Henry Hall

Michael Vallon

Helen Deverell

Robert Barron

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