The Law West of Tombstone is a 1938 Western film.Article on film at Turner Classic Monthly accessed 1 June 2013 It was an early Western for Tim Holt.
Plot A Judge Roy Bean figure dispenses justice in Arizona. He teams up with the Tonto Kid to fight the McQuinn gang.
Cast Harry Carey as Bill Barker Tim Holt as Ted aka The Tonto Kid Evelyn Brent as Clara 'Clary' Martinez Jean Rouverol as Nita Mosby Clarence Kolb as Sam Kent Allan Lane as Danny Sanders Esther Muir as Madame Mustache Bradley Page as Doc Howard Paul Guilfoyle as Bud McQuinn Robert Spindola as Joey Chuy (as Robert Moya) Ward Bond as Mulligan P. Martinez George Irving as Mort Dixon
Production Tim Holt was borrowed by RKO from Walter Wanger to play the Tonto Kid. He would soon star in a series of Westerns for the studio.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p123
Anne Shirley and Harry Carey were also borrowed from Wanger. However Shirley refused to play the role and was suspended.
Author Tom Stempel called the film " one of the more haphazard movies of the time" in which "Carey plays a combination of Buffalo Bill, Judge Roy Bean, and Pat Garrett, with a young Holt playing a version of Billy the Kid. Holt seems right at home in westerns."
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