''Son of Billy the Kid'' is a 1949 American

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film directed by Ray Taylor starring

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. Produced by

Ron Ormond Ron Ormond (born Vittorio Di Naro, August 29, 1910 – May 11, 1981) was an American author, showman, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of Western, musical, and exploitation films. Following his survival of a 1968 plane crash, Ormo ...

, the film was co-written by Ormond's wife June Carr who also plays a lead role in the film. This film was not part of the 11-film ''Marshal Lash LaRue'' movie series, although it was made simultaneously with the series.

Plot

The film imagines

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was not killed and successfully adopted another identity. Jack Garrett, no relation to Pat Garrett, interrupts a stagecoach holdup. He meets Fuzzy the town's stagecoach driver, station agent, baggage agent, Justice of the Peace, sheriff of the town and banker Jim Thorn. The trio team up to prevent robberies of Thorn's bank by Clem Yantis's large gang.

Cast

as Jack Garrett *

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 *June Carr as Betty Raines * John James as Colt Thorn * Marion Colby as Norma Berry * Bob Duncan as Clem Yantis *

Terry Frost Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in ...

as Cy Shaeffer * George Baxter as Jim Thorn *Clarke Stevens as Yantis henchman * I. Stanford Jolley as Matt Fergus * Cliff Taylor as Jake * William Perrott as Billy the Kid *

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as Rosa Gonzáles * Jerry Riggio as Sanchos *

Felipe Turich Felipe Turich (December 5, 1898 - March 9, 1992) was a Mexican film and television actor. He appeared in numerous films and TV series throughout the 1930s to the 1980s. Biography Turich was born in Hidalgo, Mexico, in 1898. He started his acting ...

as José Gonzáles

References

External links

* * 1949 films 1949 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films Films about Billy the Kid Films directed by Ray Taylor Lippert Pictures films 1940s American films {{1940s-western-film-stub