Code of the Prairie (1944)
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Code of the Prairie was among the first of cowboy star Sunset Carson's vehicles for Republic Pictures. There is nothing extraordinary about the plot, in which Carson, wrongly accused of a crime, vanquishes the villains with a spectacular (and undoubled) display of fisticuffs. What is unusual is the billing. Comedy relief Smiley Burnette is actually billed above nominal leading man Sunset Carson, proof positive of Burnette's enormous popularity with western fans. Burnette's top-dog status in the Carson series would continue until 1945, when he left Republic to join Charles Starrett at Columbia Pictures. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
Synopsis of Code of the Prairie
Code of the Prairie was among the first of cowboy star Sunset Carson's vehicles for Republic Pictures. There is nothing extraordinary about the plot, in which Carson, wrongly accused of a crime, vanquishes the villains with a spectacular (and undoubled) display of fisticuffs. What is unusual is the billing. Comedy relief Smiley Burnette is actually billed above nominal leading man Sunset Carson, proof positive of Burnette's enormous popularity with western fans. Burnette's top-dog status in the Carson series would continue until 1945, when he left Republic to join Charles Starrett at Columbia Pictures. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Code of the Prairie
- Roy Barcroft - "Professor" David Larson Graham
- Smiley Burnette - Frog Millhouse
- Tom Chatterton - Bat Matson
- Bud Geary - Lem
- Weldon Heyburn - Jess Thorpe
- Nolan Leary - Rancher
- Tom London - Loomis
- Tom Steele - Burley
- Ken Terrell - Outlaw in Brawl
- Horace B. Carpenter - Townsman Jim
- Bob Wilke
- Hank Bell - Stage Driver Jim
- Sunset Carson - Himself
- Frank Ellis - Outlaws in Office
- Karl Hackett - Deputy Sheriff
- Jack Kirk - Boggs
- Rex Lease
- Jack O'Shea - Townsman
- Peggy Stewart - Helen Matson
- Henry Wills - Outlaws on Trail
- Charles King - Election Informer
- Director(s):
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Writer(s):
- Anthony Coldeway, Albert E. DeMond
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