The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
John 'Dusty' King William Lundigan Constance Moore Larry J. Blake J. Farrell MacDonald David Oliver Ted Osborne Pierre Watkin Guy Usher Charles C. Wilson Eddy Waller Sam Flint Jack Kirk Harry Semels Tom Steele Eddie Parker Lester Dorr Reed Howes Joseph Crehan Edmund Cobb Curley Dresden Jack O'Shea Billy Wayne LeRoy Mason Eddie Fetherston Herman Hack Glenn Strange Jack Rockwell Fred Parker Horace B. Carpenter Arthur Thalasso
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