Spook Town(1944)
BLAZING GUNS, BURNING LEATHER! It's every man for himself in a shootin' showdown!
Dry Gulch Trading Post owner Kurt Fabian advances money on mortgages to the local settlers to finance an irrigation program. Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins transport the money in a strong box which they place in the Wells Fargo safe as Agent Sam Benson assures them that he is the only one who knows the safe combination.
Movie: Spook Town
Top 10 Billed Cast
Tex Wyatt
Jim Steele
Panhandle Perkins
Lucy Warren
Sam Benson
Dry Wash Thompson
Captain Wyatt
Trigger
Kurt Fabian
Henchman
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