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Plot

Billy the Kid ( Bob Steele) and his friends Jeff (

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) and Fuzzy ( Al St. John) are ambushed in a cabin. When Jeff is wounded during their getaway, they decide to hide out at Jeff's uncle's ranch in Little Bend Valley. While traveling to the ranch, they see henchmen Ed ( Charles King) and Buck (

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) accosting Ann Roberts (

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) and throwing her goods from her wagon. After Billy chases them off, Ann tells him that she and her father Tom (

Forrest Taylor Edwin Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from Silent film, silents through Sound film, talkies to the advent of Color motion picture fil ...

) had recently purchased a ranch and that someone is trying to run them off their land. Traveling with Ann to protect her, they learn that the ranch she and her father had purchased was the one owned by Jeff's uncle, but that they failed to purchase the water rights. Discovering that other ranchers in the area had also purchased lands without water rights, Billy also learns that land baron Cobb Allen (

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 Po ...

) had maliciously dammed the only free water stream in the area in order to force the group of ranchers to purchase water rights, or default on their loans. Billy and Jeff fight Allen's henchmen at the barricade, and after subduing them they return the water flow to its original channel.

Cast

* Bob Steele as

* Al St. John as Fuzzy Jones *

as Ann Roberts *

as Jeff Blanchard * Charles King as Henchman Ed Baker *

as Henchman Buck *

Kenne Duncan Kenne Duncan (February 17, 1903 – February 5, 1972) was a Canadian-born American B-movie character actor. Hyped professionally as "The Meanest Man in the Movies," the vast majority of his over 250 appearances on camera were Westerns, but ...

as Henchman Bragg *

as Tom Roberts * Ted Adams as 2nd Sheriff *

as Cobb Allen *

Karl Hackett Carl Ellsworth Germain (September 5, 1893 – October 24, 1948), known professionally as Karl Hackett, was an American actor. He served in the U.S. army during World War I. He was married to Ruby Burnette Moore. On October 24, 1948, Hackett ...

as Attorney Martin * Edward Peil Sr. as Dave Barlow *

Julian Rivero Julian Rivero (July 25, 1890 – February 24, 1976) was an American actor whose career spanned seven decades. He made his film debut in the 1923 silent melodrama, '' The Bright Shawl'', which starred Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Gish, Will ...

as Carlos *

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as Juanita

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Billy The Kid's Gun Justice 1940 films 1940 Western (genre) films 1940s American films 1940s English-language films American black-and-white films American Western (genre) films Billy the Kid (film series) English-language Western (genre) films Films directed by Sam Newfield

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