Sin Town

Sin Town (1942)

WIDE OPEN AND WILD! The worst of the lawless boom towns!

Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.

Date of release
1942-09-25
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
Western
Director
Ray Enright

Casting

Interesting facts

Sin Town is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Constance Bennett, Broderick Crawford and Patric Knowles. It is set during the Texas Oil Boom of the early 20th century. The trio of director Enright, Crawford and Gwynne collaborated on another film the same year, Men of Texas, which also revolves, to some extent, around the newspaper industry.

Production

According to The New York Times on July 31, 1942, Universal has signed Constance Bennett to play the female lead Kye Allen in Sin Town, a story of an oil-boom community, and the movie originally was planned for Marlene Dietrich. The cast included Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine and Leo Carrillo.

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