Buster Crabbe as "Billy the Kid in The Mysterious Rider" (1942)

Wrongfully accused Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) and his sidekick, Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John), escape the law by entering the ghost town of Laramy, the very town whose citizens cleared out because they believed they were being terrorized by Billy.
A few citizens remain, including former sheriff Dalton Sykes (John Merton), who continues to seek a gold vein found earlier by rancher Frank Kincaid, who was murdered by Sykes for his claim. Since that time, Sykes's gang has ridden roughshod over any who attempted to settle in Laramy, and he now sends his henchmen to kill Billy and Fuzzy.
Billy, using the name Bill Andrews, and Fuzzy rescue Kincaid's grown children, Martha (Caroline Burke) and Johnny (Edwin Brian), from Sykes's henchmen, and the Kincaids, who have been at school in the East and are unaware that their father is dead, are puzzled to find that his ranch has been abandoned.
When Fuzzy starts to play Kincaid's old violin, Sykes's men believe that Kincaid's ghost is haunting them. The violin is broken in the ensuing gunfight, but Billy discovers Kincaid's gold map hidden inside it. Billy captures two of Sykes's men, Rufe (Slim Whitaker) and Trigger (Jack Ingram) but is unable to extract a confession from them as to who killed Kincaid. Billy becomes suspicious of Sykes, and asks Johnny to get the Marshal (Karl Hackett) from a nearby town.
Sykes, meanwhile, earns Martha's confidence and she tells him about the map. Billy turns an altered copy of the map over to Sykes on demand, which leads Sykes astray. When he returns, Sykes grabs the real map and attempts to kill Billy and Fuzzy, but is interrupted by Johnny and the Marshal. Sykes almost escapes, but Billy captures him, and the map is turned over to Johnny and Martha, who take over their father's ranch. With Sykes's reign of terror put to an end, peaceful citizens return to Laramy, and Billy, having proven his innocence to the marshal, rides off with Fuzzy for their next adventure.
A 1942 American Black & White Western film (a/k/a "Panhandle Trail" and "The Mysterious Rider") directed by Sam Newfield, produced by Sigmund Neufeld, written by Sam Robins, cinematography by Jack Greenhalgh, starring Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Caroline Burke, John Merton, Edwin Brian, Jack Ingram, Slim Whitaker, Kermit Maynard, and Ted Adams.
It was part of the Billy the Kid film series of 42 Western films was produced between 1940 and 1946, and released by Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation. The Matinee duo of Buster Crabbe and Al ( Fuzzy) St. John in the "Billy the Kid" serials ran in most every theater in the 40's.
Buster Crabbe (1908 - 1983), born Clarence Linden Crabbe II, won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter freestyle swimming event, which launched his career on the silver screen and later television.
The town in this film is not Laramie, Wyoming. The name of this fictional town is Laramy, and it is in the Texas panhandle.
By 1942 there had been three movies with the title "Mysterious Rider" with one being re-released about the time this movie made it debut.
Sam Newfield (1899 - 1964), born Samuel Neufeld, was an American director, one of the most prolific in American film history, credited with directing over 250 feature films in a career which began during the silent era and ended in 1958. In addition to his staggering feature output, he also directed one -and two-reel comedy shorts, training films, industrial films, TV episodes and pretty much anything anyone would pay him for. Because of this massive output, he would sometimes direct more than 20 films in a single year. He has been called the most prolific director of the sound era. Many of Newfield's films were made for PRC Pictures, a film production company headed by his brother Sigmund Neufeld. The films PRC produced were low-budget productions, the majority being westerns, with occasional horror films or crime drama. Newfield was credited as Sherman Scott and Peter Stewart on a number of films he made for the PRC in order to hide the fact that one person was responsible for so many of PRC's films. Newfield completed one year of high school, and his brother Morris Neufeld was a stage actor.
Sigmund Neufeld (1896 - 1979) was an American B-Movie producer. He spent many years at Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation where he mainly produced films directed by his brother Sam Newfield. When PRC was taken over by Eagle-Lion Films in 1947 they both left the company. Eagle-Lion had goals of making bigger, more ambitious movies, a change in strategy that Sigmund deemed to be a financial mistake. During the following years he and his brother made several films for Film Classics. When this company also merged with Eagle-Lion in 1950 they both moved to Lippert Pictures.
This Western B-Movie is enlivened by the clownish antics of Al "Fuzzy" St. John who knew more ways to milk a scene than any other western sidekick, and there is a pretty decent gun battle near the end.

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Ahhh! The guns that magically never run out of bullets! Thanks, DPB! Had never seen a Buster Crabbe flick before! A little lame, but sometimes a little lame gets you further! (??)

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