HAUNTED GOLD (1932)

Haunted Gold is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring John Wayne.[1] It is a remake of the 1928 film The Phantom City, starring Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan. Filmed in 1932, two years before the implementation of Hollywood's Production Code, the film contains several racial slurs involving the black character "Clarence Brown" (played by Blue Washington).

Plot
John Mason and Janet Carter receive an anonymous letter telling them to travel to a ghost town that has an abandoned mine. There they befriend each other as they try to find out why they were sent the letters. They soon find themselves targets of Joe Ryan and his gang who are looking for the hidden gold inside the abandoned mine. They are helped by the mysterious Phantom of the mine who has his own plans.

Cast
John Wayne as John Mason
Sheila Terry as Janet Carter
Harry Woods as Joe Ryan
Erville Alderson as Tom Benedict
Otto Hoffman as Simon - Benedict's Servant
Martha Mattox as Mrs. Herman
Blue Washington as Clarence Washington Brown
John T. Prince as Bill Carter