Shadows of Death (1945)
1945 · Feature film · 59 min · dir. Sam Newfield
Fuzzy As A Barber Has A Close Shave With Danger!
- Western
Synopsis
With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent to help his friend Fuzzy who is the town's sheriff, judge, and barber. When the man that sent Billy is murdered and the railroad location map stolen, broken match sticks point to Vic Landreau. While Billy tries to find the missing map, Landreau suspects Billy is on to him and plans to have him killed.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Sam Newfield
- Writer
- Fred Myton
- Studio
- Sigmund Neufeld Productions, PRC
- Released
- 1945-04-19
- Series
- Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) Collection
- Running time
- 59 minutes
Cast & crew
Sam Newfield Director
Buster Crabbe
Al St. John
Dona Dax
Charles King
Karl Hackett
Eddie Hall
Frank Ellis
John Cason
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Crabbe & St. John - Comic Shadow of a Western · Poohbah70 · 2019-12-14
Buster Crabbe (Billy Carson) and over-the-top comedy relief sidekick Al St. John (Fuzzy Jones) in half a western, half a St. John farce. Crabbe comes to Red Rock to clean up a bad guys type problem - the town barber, Sheriff and Justice of the Peace are all St. John - and if you can buy that, you can live with any kind of absurd western action. Charles King, every cowboy hero's favorite punching bad leads the bad guys, with Frank Ellis and others as henchmen. Donna Dax provides the pretty face here - IMDb says she almost died in a 1932 car accident but went on to appear in 6 movies between…
