Ghost-Town Gold

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Ghost-Town Gold
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Directed by Joseph Kane
Supervised by William Berke
Written by Oliver Drake (screenplay)
William Colt MacDonald (characters)
Bernard McConville (story)
John Rathmell (screenplay)
Produced by Nat Levine (producer)
Sol C. Siegel (associate producer)
StarringSee below
Cinematography Jack A. Marta
William Nobles
Edited by Lester Orlebeck
Distributed by Republic Pictures
Release date
  • October 26, 1936 (1936-10-26)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Ghost-Town Gold is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and was the second entry of the 51-film series of Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movies. [1] It was based on the 1935 novel of the same name by William Colt MacDonald.

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Plot

Having earned a tidy sum from the sale of some cattle they drove, The Three Mesquiteers reluctantly send the gambling addict Lullaby Joslin to bank their cheque from the sale. Lullaby wins Elmer, a ventriloquist dummy at a crooked carnival by cheating at a game of Three Card Monte, replacing all his cards with Aces. Lullaby and Elmer are on a roll and arrive at the bank just after it closes.

During the night the bank is robbed, the Three Mesquiteers stay on to help the bank, including Tucson Smith taking the place of a champion in a prize fight, and apprehend the robbers who hid the money in a ghost town.

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References

  1. "The Three Mesquiteers Trio Westerns of Republic Pictures". b-westerns.com. Retrieved August 29, 2011.