Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals

Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals
Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals
	1941 lobby card
Directed by	Sam Newfield
Screenplay by	George H. Plympton
Story by	George H. Plympton
Produced by	Sigmund Neufeld
Starring	Bob Steele; Al St. John; Phyllis Adair; Carleton Young
Cinematography	Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by	Holbrook N. Todd
Production; company	Sigmund Neufeld Productions
Distributed by	Producers Releasing Corporation
Release date	April 18, 1941 (U.S.);
Running time	59 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals (also known as Trigger Men^[1]) is a 1941 American Western directed by Sam Newfield^[2] for Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), and the fifth in PRC's Billy the Kid film series.

Plot

Billy the Kid (Bob Steele) and his friends Jeff (Carleton Young) and Fuzzy (Al St. John) are on the run. They make it to Paradise Town, where the trio witnesses the murder of Marshal Mason (Stanley Price). Fuzzy poses as the marshal and rides into the town, which is now ruled by a gang led by Burke (Curley Dresden) under orders from a prominent businessman in Paradise. Setting out to put an end to the gang's lawless rule over the town, the trio faces another problem—the ward of the town banker Hardy (Edward Peil, Sr.), Ann (Phyllis Adair), who is out to set obstacles for them for unknown reasons. Along the journey, they befriend Mexican secret agent Lopez (Julian Rivero), who is posing as a bartender. As the plot thickens, it is revealed that the true mastermind is Hardy, who plans on buying up all the local property to dig a smuggling tunnel to Mexico.

Cast

Bob Steele as Billy the Kid
Carleton Young as Jeff
Al St. John as Fuzzy
Edward Peil, Sr. as Hardy
Phyllis Adair as Ann
Stanley Price as Marshall Mason
Julian Rivero as Lopez
Curley Dresden as Burke
Budd Buster as Editor Mason

Release

Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals was commercially released on 18 April 1941 in the U.S. through Producers Releasing Corporation.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Roderick McGillis (2009). He Was Some Kind of Man: Masculinities in the B Western. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9781554582891.
^ Jon Tuska (1986). Billy the Kid: A Handbook. University of Nebraska Press. p. 168.
^ Jeff Dykes (1952). Billy the Kid: the bibliography of a legend. University of Mexico Press. p. 128.
^ Ted Oduka (1989). Grand National, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Screen Guild/Lippert: complete filmographies with studio histories. McFarland & Companies. p. 232.

External links

Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals at IMDb

[1] Roderick McGillis (2009). He Was Some Kind of Man: Masculinities in the B Western. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9781554582891.

[2] Jon Tuska (1986). Billy the Kid: A Handbook. University of Nebraska Press. p. 168.

[3] Jeff Dykes (1952). Billy the Kid: the bibliography of a legend. University of Mexico Press. p. 128.

[4] Ted Oduka (1989). Grand National, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Screen Guild/Lippert: complete filmographies with studio histories. McFarland & Companies. p. 232.

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