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The Mysterious Rider (1942)

1942 · Feature film · 54 min · dir. Sam Newfield

Buster Crashes Down On The Mesa's Toughest Hombres!

  • Western

Synopsis

Billy the Kid and his pal Fuzzy escape from the Marshal and find themselves in the ghost town of Laramy. The city was abandoned because of Sykes and his gang, who are in search of a gold mine.

Synopsis from TMDb

Details

Director
Sam Newfield
Writer
Sam Robins
Studio
PRC, Sigmund Neufeld Productions
Released
1942-11-20
Series
Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) Collection
Running time
54 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★ · Crabbe & St. John - Same Old, Same Old · Poohbah70 · 2019-12-12

Buster Crabbe (Billy the Kid) and Al St. John (Fuzzy Q. Jones in another PRC movie. IMDb says its a 56:00show, we get 53;56 here - no great loss. One again, PRC has surrounded Crabbe with seasoned bad guys, including John Merton, Jack Ingram, Slim Whitaker, Kermit Maynard and Karl Hackett. The beauty here is Caroline Burke - IMDb says she appeared in 4 films between 1942-45. Evidently there was money in her family as she is noted as a collector of modern art; she was also a Broadway producer and an educator, teaching television production at Columbia University. The plot is pedestrian - big…

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