The Lawless Nineties
The Lawless Nineties is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Lane Chandler as federal agents in Wyoming. The film also stars a 19yearold Ann Rutherford as well as George Hayes.
Carter had recently become the new editor and publisher of the local newspaper the Crocket City Blade, and when he announces plans to use the power of the press to fight lawlessness and aid the statehood cause, he is threatened by villain Charles Plummer and subsequently shot and murdered by one of his men in a staged fight.When Plummers henchmen eventually kill Bridger, after learning of his status as a government agent, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummers men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day they descend on the town barricaded by Plummers gang and defeated the gang leader and his henchmen. ........
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