Ghost Town Law

Mar 27, 1942

1h 2m

★ 5.7

Ghostly killers, haunted mines, nights of terror....in the Rough Riders' ace adventure!

Overview

When two of their Marshal friends are killed, the Rough Riders are sent to investigate. They have to find the killers in a ghost town where the houses and an old mine are interconnected by secret passages and tunnels.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

Ghost Town Law Trailers

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Cast

Marshal Tim McCall

Tim McCoy

Marshal Buck Roberts

Buck Jones

Marshal Sandy Hopkins

Raymond Hatton

Josie Hall

Virginia Carpenter

Tom Cook

Howard Masters

Judge Crail (as Murdock McQuarrie)

Murdock MacQuarrie

Henchman Gus

Charles King

Ace, Chief Thug

Tom London

Red Larkin

Ben Corbett

Luke Martin

Milburn Morante

Chief Marshal Pat Madderson

Jack Baxley

The Caretaker, called "The Kid"

Eddie Phillips

Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams

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