Unletterboxd

Discover

  • Popular
  • Top Rated

Genres

loading...

TMDB logo

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Animation
  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • Family
  • Fantasy
  • History
  • Horror
  • Music
  • Mystery
  • Romance
  • Science Fiction
  • TV Movie
  • Thriller
  • War
  • Western

Cast

Johnny Mack Brown

Johnny Mack Brown

Steve Collins

Fuzzy Knight

Fuzzy Knight

Dr. J. Wellington Dingle

William Farnum

William Farnum

Judge Ezra Binns

Rex Lease

Rex Lease

Bert Lawler

Helen Deverell

Helen Deverell

Betty Wilkins

Hugh Prosser

Hugh Prosser

Utah Kid

Robert Barron

Robert Barron

Flash Hollister

Michael Vallon

Michael Vallon

Lawyer Clint Rayner

Henry Hall

Henry Hall

John Wilkins

Fred Kohler Jr.

Fred Kohler Jr.

Henchman Clem

Nora Lou Martin

Nora Lou Martin

Work Camp Singer

Crew

Joseph H. Lewis

Joseph H. Lewis

Director

Oliver Drake

Oliver Drake

Screenplay

Movie poster

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

19420.0 / 1058 min
Western

Overview

BULLETS BLAST THE BADLANDS!...as a two-gun terror blazes the Western trail of the Telegraph!

It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) comes to the aid of Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell), who has taken over the telegraph-line business established by her uncle John (Henry Hall). The latter was murdered by outlaws who don't cotton to having the territory linked up electronically with the rest of the world.