One of the Billy the Kid/Billy Carson series of PRC B westerns, starring Buster Crabbe and his comical sidekick Al St. John, as Fuzzy. Fuzzy really does little in this episode other than follow Billy around. The plot centers around the scheme of banker Harry Stanton(John Merton) and saloon owner Buck Shaw(Charles King) to acquire the Crockett ranch and meat packing plant by a combination of rustling their cattle being driven from Montana to Wyoming, and making young Jack Crockett incur a sizable debt from losing at the gambling table. Billy took care of the gambling debt potential problem by taking over Jack's place at the gambling table, winning and exposing the cheating of professional gambler Hammond. Instead of rustling, Shaw and Stanton arrange for Green's men to stampede the herd, scattering them all over. Apparently, this didn't go as planned, but I'm not sure why. So, Shaw and Stanton dump some poison in the only watering hole for many miles around. Very fortunately, Dave Crockett and daughter Barbara happened to see this, and warned Billy and Fuzzy when they came to get a drink.......I'd like to point out some peculiarities or questions: 1)Charles King(Shaw) and John Merton(Stanton) looked so much alike, as stereotypical villains, that I couldn't tell them apart....2)Shaw? or Stanton? made a huge mistake when he failed to make sure wounded Dave Crockett was dead after he shot him near the water hole. Dave played opossum well enough that he was able to warn Billy and Fuzzy of the poisoned water, thus saving the cattle herd as well as themselves.....3)Dave may have saved Billy and the cattle from poisoned water, but how did the cattle then avoid dying of thirst?..... 4)Who killed crooked gambler Hammond? Billy is wrongly blamed. Jack Crockett tells Billy that he killed him. But the sheriff told Billy that a derringer bullet was found in Hammond's body, and Jack doesn't have a derringer. Besides, we saw this shooting, and it looked like Hammond was only wounded. So, who has a derringer? We don't find out until the climax, when Shaw pulls out a derringer and shoots at Billy. Very amazingly, he totally misses Billy, who then plays opossum, and trips Shaw up.....5) When the sheriff arrives, Shaw claims that Billy killed Stanton, then was robbing the bank safe. The sheriff immediately rejects this scenario. Why? How could this be proved wrong? If only a derringer bullet was found in Hammond's body, that would show that Shaw killed Stanton.
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