Devil Riders
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| Directed by | Sam Newfield |
| Written by | Joseph O'Donnell |
| Produced by | Sigmund Neufeld |
| Starring | See below |
| Cinematography | Robert E. Cline |
| Edited by | Robert O. Crandall |
| Distributed by | Producers Releasing Corporation |
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Running time | 56 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Devil Riders is a 1943 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield. It was the first film in Producers Releasing Corporation's Billy the Kid film series where Crabbe changed his name to "Billy Carson".
Plot
[edit | edit source]Billy and Fuzzy are in charge of the local branch of the Pony Express. When a stagecoach line comes to town the Pony Express retains the weekly mail delivery contract whilst the stagecoach line takes freight and passengers. When the stagecoach line decides to do a daily mail service Billy and Fuzzy initially welcome the competition. However, two scheming businessman feel the stagecoach line would threaten their wealth and they plot to have the Pony Express and stagecoach line fight each other by each blaming the other for the sabotage done by the henchmen of the businessmen.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson
- Al St. John as Fuzzy Q. Jones
- Patti McCarty as Sally Farrell
- Charles King as Del Stone
- John Merton as Jim Higgins
- Kermit Maynard as Henchman Red
- Frank LaRue as Tom Farrell
- Jack Ingram as Henchman Turner
- George Chesebro as Curley
Soundtrack
[edit | edit source]- Tex Williams and the Big Slicker Band - "She's Mine"
- Tex Williams and the Big Slicker Band - "It Don't Mean Anything Now"
See also
[edit | edit source]The "Billy the Kid" films starring Buster Crabbe:
- Billy the Kid Wanted (1941)
- Billy the Kid's Round-Up (1941)
- Billy the Kid Trapped (1942)
- Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942)
- Law and Order (1942)
- Sheriff of Sage Valley (1942)
- The Mysterious Rider (1942)
- The Kid Rides Again (1943)
- Fugitive of the Plains (1943)
- Western Cyclone (1943)
- Cattle Stampede (1943)
- The Renegade (1943)
- Blazing Frontier (1943)
- Devil Riders (1943)
- Frontier Outlaws (1944)
- Valley of Vengeance (1944)
- The Drifter (1944)
- Fuzzy Settles Down (1944)
- Rustlers' Hideout (1944)
- Wild Horse Phantom (1944)
- Oath of Vengeance (1944)
- His Brother's Ghost (1945)
- Thundering Gunslingers (1945)
- Shadows of Death (1945)
- Gangster's Den (1945)
- Stagecoach Outlaws (1945)
- Border Badmen (1945)
- Fighting Bill Carson (1945)
- Prairie Rustlers (1945)
- Lightning Raiders (1945)
- Terrors on Horseback (1946)
- Gentlemen with Guns (1946)
- Ghost of Hidden Valley (1946)
- Prairie Badmen (1946)
- Overland Riders (1946)
- Outlaws of the Plains (1946)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Devil Riders at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Devil Riders is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive ([Alternative link])
- 1943 films
- 1943 Western (genre) films
- American black-and-white films
- Billy the Kid (film series)
- Producers Releasing Corporation films
- American Western (genre) films
- Films directed by Sam Newfield
- Works about the Pony Express
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- English-language Western (genre) films
- 1940s American Western (genre) film stubs