The Kansan (1943)
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
SMASHING FISTS AND CRASHING BULLETS...OF DESPERATE MEN IN LOVE!
Josh Hudkins: [to Bonniwell] Marshal, I'm the mayor here. Aren't you overstepping your authority?
Kernville, California, USA
This was one of two dozen Walter Wanger/Harry Sherman/Cinema Guild films originally released by United Artists, re-released theatrically in 1948 by Masterpiece Productions, and ultimately sold by them for US television syndication in 1950. It was first telecast in Los Angeles Sunday 2 April 1950 on KTLA (Channel 5), in Detroit Sunday 7 May 1950 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in New York City Saturday 17 June 1950 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Phoenix Sunday 9 July 1950 on KPHO (Channel 5), in Albuquerque Tuesday 25 July 1950 on KOB (Channel 4), in Cleveland Sunday 30 July 1950 on WXEL (Channel 9), Chicago Monday 21 August 1950 on WENR (Channel 7), in Atlanta Thursday 24 August 1950 on WSB (Channel 8), in Philadelphia Saturday 2 September 1950 on WFIL (Channel 6), in Cincinnati Saturday 9 September 1950 on WKRC (Channel 11), in Pittsburgh Thursday 14 September 1950 on WDTV (Channel 3), in San Francisco Saturday 30 September 1950 on KGO (Channel 7), and in Boston Sunday 8 October 1950 on WNAC (Channel 7),
Film debut of Lorraine Clark.
Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Victor Jory, Francis McDonald and George Reeves all appeared in Buckskin Frontier (1943), released earlier the same year.