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Bonanza Town
Bonanza Town

Bonanza Town

Charles "Hot Bullets" STARRET...can't be stopped and Smiley "Hot Ballads" BURNETTE can't be topped!

Genres

Western

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Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and gets paid with marked bills. He suspects Hardison is Boseman's boss and he is right as Hardison and his men are now planning to get rid of both him and the Durango kid.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

56 mins

Rating

6/10

Release Date

26 July 1951

Country

United States of America

Cast

Charles Starrett

Charles Starrett

Steve Ramsay / The Durango Kid

Fred F. Sears

Fred F. Sears

Henry Hardison

Luther Crockett

Luther Crockett

Judge Anthony Dillon

Myron Healey

Myron Healey

Krag Boseman

Charles Horvath

Charles Horvath

Henchman Smoker

Slim Duncan

Slim Duncan

Slim Duncan

Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

I. Stanford Jolley

I. Stanford Jolley

Borger (archive footage) (uncredited)

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