The Law West of Tombstone is a 1938 Western film. It was an early Western for Tim Holt.
Plot
A Judge Roy Bean figure dispenses justice in Arizona. He teams up with the Tonto Kid to fight the McQuinn gang.
Cast
Harry Carey as Bill Barker
Tim Holt as Ted aka The Tonto Kid
Evelyn Brent as Clara 'Clary' Martinez
Jean Rouverol as Nita Mosby
Clarence Kolb as Sam Kent
Allan Lane as Danny Sanders
Esther Muir as Madame Mustache
Bradley Page as Doc Howard
Paul Guilfoyle as Bud McQuinn
Robert Spindola as Joey Chuy (as Robert Moya) Ward Bond as Mulligan P. Martinez George Irving as Mort Dixon
Production
Tim Holt was borrowed by RKO from Walter Wanger to play the Tonto Kid. He would soon star in a series of Westerns for the studio.
Anne Shirley and Harry Carey were also borrowed from Wanger. However Shirley refused to play the role and was suspended.
Author Tom Stempel called the film " one of the more haphazard movies of the time" in which "Carey plays a combination of Buffalo Bill, Judge Roy Bean, and Pat Garrett, with a young Holt playing a version of Billy the Kid. Holt seems right at home in westerns."