Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940)
In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennetts,engage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses. Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly. The judge has been sent by Washington's Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County, but is murdered by the Daly/Morgan henchman. Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers, but Daly is elected sheriff, and promptly brands Billy, Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws. Billy, now known as Billy the Kid, retaliates by ...
Director: Sam Newfield
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Bob Steele as Billy the Kid |
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Louise Currie as Molly Fitzgerald |
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Al St. John as Fuzzy Jones |
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Carleton Young as Jeff Travis |
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John Merton as Lije Ellis |
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Joe McGuinn as Pete Morgan |
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Ted Adams as Sam Daly |
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Walter McGrail as Judge Fitzgerald |
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Hal Price as Sheriff Long |
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Kenne Duncan as Dave Hendricks |
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Reed Howes as Whitey |
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George Chesebro as Tex Carson |
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Steve Clark as Shorty Rice |
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Budd Buster as Clem |
| Directing | Sam Newfield | Director |
| Production | Sigmund Neufeld | Producer |
| Writing | Oliver Drake | Writer |
