Billy the Kid Wanted
{{short description|1941 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Billy the Kid Wanted
| image = Btkwantedpos.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Sam Newfield
| producer = Sigmund Neufeld
| writer = Fred Myton
| starring = Buster Crabbe
Al St. John
Glenn Strange
| cinematography = Jack Greenhalgh
| editing = Holbrook N. Todd
| studio = Sigmund Neufeld Productions
| distributor = Producers Releasing Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1941|10|04}}
| runtime = 63 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Billy the Kid Wanted is a 1941 American western film directed by Sam Newfield. This film is the seventh in the "Billy the Kid" film series produced by PRC from 1940 to 1946, and the first starring Buster Crabbe as Billy the Kid, replacing Bob Steele. The film also features Sam Newfield's son Joel.
Plot
Tired of always running from the law, Fuzzy leaves his pals Billy and Jeff and heads to Paradise Valley to be a homesteader. However, when he finds himself in trouble and is arrested he sends for them. They find the source of Fuzzy's trouble, Matt Brawley, who controls the town and is running a land swindle.
Cast
- Buster Crabbe as Billy the Kid
- Al St. John as Fuzzy
- Dave O'Brien as Jeff
- Glenn Strange as Matt Brawley
- Charles King as Jack Saunders
- Slim Whitaker as 2nd Sheriff
- Howard Masters as Stan Harper
- Choti Sherwood as Jane Harper
- Joel Newfield as Joey Harper
- Budd Buster as Storekeeper
- Frank Ellis as Bart - Henchman
See also
The "Billy the Kid" films starring Buster Crabbe:
- Billy the Kid Wanted (1941)
- Billy the Kid's Round-Up (1941)
- Billy the Kid Trapped (1942)
- Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942)
- Law and Order (1942)
- Sheriff of Sage Valley (1942)
- The Mysterious Rider (1942)
- The Kid Rides Again (1943)
- Fugitive of the Plains (1943)
- Western Cyclone (1943)
- Cattle Stampede (1943)
- The Renegade (1943)
- Blazing Frontier (1943)
- Devil Riders (1943)
- Frontier Outlaws (1944)
- Valley of Vengeance (1944)
- The Drifter (1944)
- Fuzzy Settles Down (1944)
- Rustlers' Hideout (1944)
- Wild Horse Phantom (1944)
- Oath of Vengeance (1944)
- His Brother's Ghost (1945)
- Thundering Gunslingers (1945)
- Shadows of Death (1945)
- Gangster's Den (1945)
- Stagecoach Outlaws (1945)
- Border Badmen (1945)
- Fighting Bill Carson (1945)
- Prairie Rustlers (1945)
- Lightning Raiders (1945)
- Terrors on Horseback (1946)
- Gentlemen with Guns (1946)
- Ghost of Hidden Valley (1946)
- Prairie Badmen (1946)
- Overland Riders (1946)
- Outlaws of the Plains (1946)
External links
- {{Internet Archive film|id=Billy_the_Kid_Wanted_1941|name=Billy the Kid Wanted}}
- {{IMDb title|id=0033391|title=Billy the Kid Wanted}}
References
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{{Billy the Kid}}
{{Sam Newfield}}
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Category:1941 Western (genre) films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:Billy the Kid (film series)
Category:Films directed by Sam Newfield
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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