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In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennetts,engage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses. Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly. The judge has been sent by Washington's Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County, but is murdered by the Daly/Morgan henchman. Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers, but Daly is elected sheriff, and promptly brands Billy, Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws. Billy, now known as Billy the Kid, retaliates by ...

This film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. Its earliest documented telecasts took place in Baltimore Saturday 14 August 1948 on WBAL (Channel 11), in both New York City and Philadelphia Sunday 5 September 1948 on WCBS (Channel 2) and WCAU (Channel 10), in Syracuse Sunday 6 February 1949 on WHEN (Channel 8), in Dayton Saturday 12 March 1949 on WHIO (Channel 13), and in Albuquerque Wednesday 30 March 1949 on KOB (Channel 4).


Cast overview:
Bob Steele Bob Steele - Billy the Kid
Louise Currie Louise Currie - Molly Fitzgerald (as Louise Curry)
Al St. John Al St. John - Fuzzy Jones
Carleton Young Carleton Young - Jeff Travis (as Carlton Young)
John Merton John Merton - Lije Ellis
Joe McGuinn Joe McGuinn - Pete Morgan
Ted Adams Ted Adams - Sam Daly
Walter McGrail Walter McGrail - Judge Fitzgerald
Hal Price Hal Price - Sheriff Long
Kenne Duncan Kenne Duncan - Dave Hendricks (as Ken Duncan)
Reed Howes Reed Howes - Henchman Whitey
George Chesebro George Chesebro - Henchman Tex Carson (as George Cheseboro)
Steve Clark Steve Clark - Shorty Rice
Budd Buster Budd Buster - Bartender Clem (as Bud Buster)
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