| Carson City | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Andre de Toth |
| Screenplay by | Sloan Nibley Winston Miller |
| Story by | Sloan Nibley |
| Produced by | Bryan Foy David Weisbart |
| Starring | Randolph Scott Lucille Norman Raymond Massey |
| Cinematography | John W. Boyle |
| Edited by | Robert L. Swanson |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
| Color process | Warnercolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.7 million (USA rentals)[1] |
Carson City is a 1952 AmericanWestern film directed byAndre de Toth and starringRandolph Scott,Lucille Norman, andRaymond Massey.[2]
Based on a story bySloan Nibley, the film is about a railroad construction engineer whose plans to build a railroad line between Nevada'sCarson City andVirginia City are met with hostility by the locals, who feel the trains will attract outlaws. Filmed on location atIverson Ranch,Bell Ranch, andBronson Canyon inGriffith Park,[3]Carson City wasWarner Bros.' first film shot inWarnerColor.
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires bankerCharles Crocker, who happens to have connections in theCentral Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line fromVirginia City toCarson City, so that the gold can be shipped by rail.
Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However, there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis. He doesn't own a working mine; he finds it easier to rob from the other owners. Davis is the brains behind the gang holding up Sharon's shipments. The technique is to hold up the stagecoach and then provide food and champagne for the passengers, who then don't care that the gold is robbed.
Kincaid vows to rid Carson City of the bandits, but they frame him on a murder charge. In the climax, Kincaid has to contend with a suspicious landslide which kills some of his workers, trapping others, and a gold bullion heist.
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Though it is never mentioned by name, theVirginia and Truckee Railroad, which ran fromReno to Carson City, may have served as the inspiration for this story. One branch of the real-world railroad ran from Carson City to Virginia City. The railroad as a whole was built to serve the silver mines of Nevada, primarily Virginia City'sComstock Lode. The section that ran from Carson City to Virginia City was restored and reopened in 2009, as aheritage railroad.