''Overland Riders'' is a 1946 American
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film directed by
Sam Newfield
Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld, (December 6, 1899 - November 10, 1964), also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie Film director, director, one of the most prolific in American film history—he is credited with d ...
and written by Ellen Coyle. The film stars
Buster Crabbe
Clarence Linden Crabbe II (; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983), known professionally as Buster Crabbe, was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter freestyle swimmi ...
,
Al St. John
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,
Patti McCarty
Lois Patricia McCarty (February 11, 1921 - July 7, 1985) was an American actress.
Biography
Baker was born in Bakersfield, California, and grew up in Healdsburg. She graduated from Covina High School in Covina, California, and she attended Los ...
,
Slim Whitaker
Charles Orbie "Slim" Whitaker (July 29, 1893 – June 27, 1960) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 340 films between 1914 and 1949. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and died in Los Angeles, California, from a heart at ...
,
Bud Osborne
Leonard Miles "Bud" Osborne (July 20, 1884 – February 2, 1964) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 600 films and television programs between 1912 and 1963.
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Osborne was born Miles Osborne in Knox County, Texas, ...
and Jack O'Shea. The film was released on August 21, 1946, by
Producers Releasing Corporation
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.
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Cast
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Buster Crabbe
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as Billy Carson
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Al St. John
Al St. John (also credited as Al Saint John and "Fuzzy" St. John; September 10, 1892 – January 21, 1963) was an early American motion-picture comedian. He was a nephew of silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, with whom he often performed on ...
as Fuzzy Jones
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Patti McCarty
Lois Patricia McCarty (February 11, 1921 - July 7, 1985) was an American actress.
Biography
Baker was born in Bakersfield, California, and grew up in Healdsburg. She graduated from Covina High School in Covina, California, and she attended Los ...
as Jean Barkley
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Slim Whitaker
Charles Orbie "Slim" Whitaker (July 29, 1893 – June 27, 1960) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 340 films between 1914 and 1949. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and died in Los Angeles, California, from a heart at ...
as Jeff Barkley
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Bud Osborne
Leonard Miles "Bud" Osborne (July 20, 1884 – February 2, 1964) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 600 films and television programs between 1912 and 1963.
Biography
Osborne was born Miles Osborne in Knox County, Texas, ...
as Sheriff Dawson
*Jack O'Shea as Vic Landreau
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Frank Ellis as Cherokee
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Al Ferguson
Al Ferguson (19 April 1888 – 4 December 1971) was an Irish-born American film actor.
Born in County Wexford, Ireland, he appeared in nearly 300 films between 1912 and 1956. Billed as Smoke Ferguson, by 1912 he was making Westerns for Selig ...
as Tug Wilson
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John L. Cason as Hank Fowler
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George Chesebro
George Newell Chesebro (July 29, 1888 – May 28, 1959) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1915 and 1954. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California.
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as Jim Rance
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Lane Bradford
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as Deputy
See also
The "Billy the Kid" films starring Buster Crabbe:
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Billy the Kid Wanted
''Billy the Kid Wanted'' is a 1941 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield. This film is the seventh in the "Billy the Kid" film series produced by PRC from 1940 to 1946, and the first starring Buster Crabbe as Billy the Kid, replacing ...
'' (1941)
* ''
Billy the Kid's Round-Up
''Billy the Kid's Round-Up'' is a 1941 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Carleton Young, Joan Barclay, Glenn Strange and Charles King. The film was released on ...
'' (1941)
* ''
Billy the Kid Trapped
''Billy the Kid Trapped'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield.
Plot
Imprisoned and sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit, Billy, Fuzzy and Jeff break out of jail. The three escapees discover that there are thr ...
'' (1942)
* ''
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
''Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Milton Raison and George Wallace Sayre. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Dave O'Brien, John Merton, Milton Kibbee and Ted Adams ...
'' (1942)
* ''
Law and Order
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'' (1942)
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Sheriff of Sage Valley
''Sheriff of Sage Valley'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield.
Plot
Billy, Fuzzy and Jeff interrupt a stagecoach robbery and discover that one of the passengers, the sheriff of Sage Valley was shot in the back by one of t ...
'' (1942)
* ''
The Mysterious Rider'' (1942)
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The Kid Rides Again
''The Kid Rides Again'' is a 1943 American western directed by Sam Newfield. The film was one of the Billy the Kid (film series), Billy the Kid (film series by Producers Releasing Corporation. It was Iris Meredith's last credited feature film ...
'' (1943)
* ''
Fugitive of the Plains
''Fugitive of the Plains'' is a 1943 American Producers Releasing Corporation Western film of the "Billy the Kid" series directed by Sam Newfield. In April 1947 PRC re-released the film as a "streamlined" (edited) "Bronco Buckaroo" version re ...
'' (1943)
* ''
Western Cyclone
''Western Cyclone'' is a 1943 American Producers Releasing Corporation Western film of the "Billy the Kid" series directed by Sam Newfield. The film is also known as ''Frontier Fighters'' (cut American reissue title).
Plot
On a western lan ...
'' (1943)
* ''
Cattle Stampede
''Cattle Stampede'' is a 1943 American Producers Releasing Corporation Western film of the "Billy the Kid" series directed by Sam Newfield.
Plot
Pursued through Arizona by a gang of outlaws turned bounty hunters for the massive reward on Bill ...
'' (1943)
* ''
The Renegade'' (1943)
* ''
Blazing Frontier
''Blazing Frontier'' is a 1943 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield. The film is also known as ''Blazing Range'' (American recut version).
Cast
*Buster Crabbe as Billy the Kid
*Al St. John as Fuzzy Q. Jones
*Marjorie Manners as Hel ...
'' (1943)
* ''
Devil Riders
''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
Billy and Fuzzy are in charge ...
'' (1943)
* ''
Frontier Outlaws
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'' (1944)
* ''
Valley of Vengeance
''Valley of Vengeance'' is a 1944 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Joseph O'Donnell. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Evelyn Finley, Donald Mayo, David Polonsky and Glenn Strange. The film ...
'' (1944)
* ''
The Drifter'' (1944)
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Fuzzy Settles Down
''Fuzzy Settles Down'' is a 1944 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield.
Plot
Two cowboys, Fuzzy Jones and Billy Carson, catch a pair of bank robbers; and then are endowed with the reward money. In the town of Red Rock the local newspa ...
'' (1944)
* ''
Rustlers' Hideout
''Rustlers' Hideout'' is a 1944 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield. In 1940 Crabbe had followed and replaced Bob Steele in the role of Billy the Kid in a series of B-Westerns. After 19 films as Billy, the character was renamed Bill ...
'' (1944)
* ''
Wild Horse Phantom
''Wild Horse Phantom'' is a 1944 American Producers Releasing Corporation Western film of the "Billy the Kid" series directed by Sam Newfield.
Plot
The film begins with a breakout of five inmates from a modern day prison. Watching the escape ...
'' (1944)
* ''
Oath of Vengeance
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'' (1944)
* ''
His Brother's Ghost
''His Brother's Ghost'' is a 1945 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Sam Newfield.
Plot
When a group of gunmen are running sharecroppers off their land, rancher Andy Jones sends for his friend Billy Carson to organise the share ...
'' (1945)
* ''
Thundering Gunslingers
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'' (1945)
* ''
Shadows of Death
''Shadows of Death'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield.
Premise
Billy Carson tracks down the murderer of a man carrying news of the railroad traveling through the town of Red Rock, where Fuzzy Q. Jones is Justice of the ...
'' (1945)
* ''
Gangster's Den
''Gangster's Den'' is a 1945 American Producers Releasing Corporation Western film of the "Billy the Kid" series directed by Sam Newfield. The film is notable for having three comedy relief characters; Al St. John, Emmett Lynn, and Charles ...
'' (1945)
* ''
Stagecoach Outlaws
''Stagecoach Outlaws'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Frances Gladwin, Ed Cassidy, I. Stanford Jolley and Kermit Maynard. The film was released on ...
'' (1945)
* ''
Border Badmen
''Border Badmen'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Milton Raison. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Lorraine Miller, Charles King, Ray Bennett and Arch Hall Sr. The film was released on Octobe ...
'' (1945)
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Fighting Bill Carson'' (1945)
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Prairie Rustlers
''Prairie Rustlers'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Evelyn Finley, Karl Hackett, I. Stanford Jolley and Bud Osborne. The film was released on Nove ...
'' (1945)
* ''
Lightning Raiders
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'' (1945)
* ''
Terrors on Horseback
''Terrors on Horseback'' is a 1946 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Milton Raison. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patti McCarty, I. Stanford Jolley, Kermit Maynard and Henry Hall. The film was relea ...
'' (1946)
* ''
Gentlemen with Guns
''Gentlemen with Guns'' is a 1946 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patricia Knox, Steve Darrell, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Budd Buster and Frank Ellis. ...
'' (1946)
* ''
Ghost of Hidden Valley
''Ghost of Hidden Valley'' is a 1946 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Ellen Coyle. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Jean Carlin, John Meredith, Charles King and Jimmy Aubrey. The film was released on Jun ...
'' (1946)
* ''
Prairie Badmen
''Prairie Badmen'' is a 1946 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patricia Knox, Charles King, Ed Cassidy and Kermit Maynard. The film was released on July 17, 194 ...
'' (1946)
* ''Overland Riders'' (1946)
* ''
Outlaws of the Plains
''Outlaws of the Plains'' is a 1946 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Buster Crabbe, Al St. John and Patti McCarty.Vermilye p.168-69
Cast
* Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson
* Al St. John as Fuzzy Q. Jone ...
'' (1946)
References
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