Nevada (1944)
Thrill to the Silver Stampede - The roaring saga of the Comstock Lode...when men staked their claims in a hail of lead!
Just as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his $7000 and heads out to buy mining equipment. Burridge has his man Powell kill Ide and retrieve the money and Nevada finds Ide just as the posse arrives. Found with the money Nevada is arrested and Burridge now gets Powell to incite the local citizens to lynch Nevada.
- Date of release
- 1944-12-25
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Edward Killy
Casting
- Robert Mitchum — Jim Lacy aka Nevada
- Anne Jeffreys — Julie Dexter
- Craig Reynolds — Cassius "Cash" Burridge
- Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams — Dusty
- Richard Martin — Chito Rafferty
- Harry Woods — Joe Powell
- Nancy Gates — Hattie Ide
- Sammy McKim — Marvy Ide
- Alan Ward — Sheriff William H. Brewer
- Edmund Glover — Nelson, assayer-deputy
- Emmett Lynn — J. Pancake Comstock
- Larry Wheat — Ben Ide
Interesting facts
Nevada is a 1944 Western film based on the 1928 Zane Grey novel and starring a 27-year-old Robert Mitchum, with Anne Jeffreys, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, and Richard Martin in supporting roles. The film was written by Norman Houston from Grey's popular novel and directed by Edward Killy. Mitchum is billed with "Introducing Bob Mitchum as Jim Lacy" at the film's beginning. Although this was not Mitchum's first movie, it was his first lead role; he had previously played mainly villains.
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