The Law West of Tombstone (RKO, 1938)

Harry Carey rides again In a deliberate allusion to ‘the law west of the Pecos’, in RKO’s 1938 picture The Law West of Tombstone, Harry Carey plays a Judge Roy Bean-like figure, a blowhard who dispenses ‘law’ from a saloon in Arizona. The picture also contains a sort-of Lily Langtry, a Billy the […]