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Billy the Kid's Gun Justice [VHS]

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Billy the Kid's Gun Justice, 1940 film

The movie begins with Billy shooting out of the window. Jeff and Fuzzy are in this cabin. Fuzzy digs them out of this trouble, and they escape. Billy defends a lone woman against two cowboys, then escorts her home. Jeff said this used to be his Uncle Jim's place. Did they hear of a Jim Blanchard? "He went away." [Does their house seem too well furnished?] The man that sold them the land did not include the water rights (an old trick). Billy and Jeff go to where the ware was diverted. There are shots and a fist fight. The settlers can dig a ditch for water now. Where is Jim Blanchard? Nobody knows. Lawyer Martin offers them good advice. Billy visits Allen and asks him to return the money to the settlers. There is a fight in the bar, six men pursue Billy and Jeff but lose them.

Allen shows up with the sheriff to ask for reparations for the dam damage, or face legal action. Will a man tell where Billy and his friends are hiding? Billy has a plan and sends Fuzzy to the saloon with a map for buried gold. Allen's henchmen go to search Roberts' ranch and are caught. Jeff follows Baker to their stone cabin and hears about the disappeared men. Allen shows up at Roberts' ranch to offer a lot of money for an immediate sale of his ranch. Jeff releases the sheriff and tells him where the bodies are buried. Allen buys the ranch, Mr. Roberts and Ann quickly move away, then Billy leaves too. The bags of gold turn out to be duds! Allen and Baker race after Billy and Fuzzy. Jeff and the sheriff race after Allen and Baker, then take them to jail.

Al "Fuzzy" St. John began in silent pictures with Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. Like some other silent movie actors he switched to Westerns and often played comic characters. "Billy the Kid" acts as a hero in saving small ranchers from a crooked land dealer who killed to get his land. In other films "Billy the Kid" is a gunman and outlaw. Robert M. Utley wrote a biography about William Henry Bonney, and other histories about the late 19th century west.

This echoes a story about Jesse James who paid off a widow's mortgage then robbed the banker who collected the payment. This same story was traced to the legendary Robin Hood. A good story gets repeated and adapted to current times.

VCI Entertainment and Producers Releasing Corporation present "Billy the Kid's Gun Justice" (1940) (Dolby
digitally remastered)...relive those thrilling days from the early '30s and '40s
when Bob Steele took us down the dusty trails and the plains to exciting
adventures....some of the best B-Westerns ever to grace the Saturday Matinee
Screen...just remember double thrills, chills, mystery and suspense...hitting the bull's eye
with excitement...don't miss any of the Bob Steele features loaded with action that will leave
you wanting more of his B-Western adventures

Under director Peter Stewart, producer Sigmund Neufeld, original screenplay by Tom Gibsonl...the cast include Bob Steele (Billy the Kid), Al St. John (Fuzzy), Louise Currie (Ann Roberts), Carleton Young (Jeff Blanchard), Charles King (Ed Baker/henchman), Rex Lease (Buck/henchman), Kenne Duncan(Bragg/henchman), Forrest Taylor (Tom Roberts), Ted Adams (Sheriff), Al Ferguson (Cobb Allen), Karl Hackett (Martin/attorney), Julian Rivero (Carlos), Blancs Visher (Juanita). . . . . . . . our story has our hero Bob Steele with sidekicks Al St. John and Carleton Young riding the trails again into the disappearance of Carleton's uncle...is water rights behind all of this shadiness, can the trio help save the crops of the neighboring ranchers...by the way Charles King is one of the villains and the fight between him and Steele in a cabin is well worth the price of a ticket...speaking of veteran actors we have Karl Hackett, Rex Lease, Forrest Taylor, Ted Adams, Al Ferguson and Kenne Duncan, all who have appeared in every B-Western that ever came along...is there a fake map leading to a gold mine with Fuzzy Al St. John leading the way.....this was the third in the series of six PRC westerns starring Bob Steele as "Billy the Kid"....another great B-Western for Bob Steele under the PRC banner for Poverty Row, proves to be one of his most exciting performances.

Special footnote, actor Bob Steele was the son of director Robert N. Bradbury and the age of 14 he and his twin brother Bill Bradbury made a series of comedy shorts "Adventures of Bob and Bill" (1920), directed by their father...along came his first starring western "The Mojave Kid" (1927), released by Film Booking Office of America (FBO) and directed by his father, he changed his name to Bob Steele...making low budget B-Westerns for independent studios such as Republic, Supreme, Monogram and PRC which included nearly 200 feature films, serials and TV appearances...was in his twilight years at the age 59 when he got the part of the cantankerous "Trooper Duffy", in the western comedy series "F Troop" (1965), who at the drop of a hat would give his rendition of fighting "shoulder to shoulder with Davy Crockett at the Alamo"...Steele retired from the screen in 1973...his long career, spanning more than 50 years came to an end in 1988 when he passed away.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Bob Steele (Robert Adrian Bradbury)
Birth Date: 1/23/1907 - Pendleton, Oregon
Died: 12/21/1988 - Burbank, CA.

If you crave action, drama and plenty of adventure check out other western double features with Bob Steele:

BOB STEELE WESTERN DOUBLE FEATURES:
1. Vol. 1 - Tombstone Terror/Lightnin' Crandall (VCI #7212) (DVD)
2. Vol. 2 - Brand of Hate/Trusted Outlaw (VCI #7252) (DVD)
3. Vol. 3 - The Arizona Gunfighter/Last of the Warrens (VCI #7261) (DVD)
4. Vol. 4 - Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin'/The Feud Maker (VCI #7275) (DVD)

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Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing "Billy the Kid's Gun Justice" (1940), the
digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more
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are plenty of copies available on DVD and VHS, stay tuned once again for top
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the way we like 'em

Total Time: 57 min on DVD/VHS ~ VCI Entertainment #1965~ (11/19/1997)