In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennetts,engage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses. Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly. The judge has been sent by Washington's Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County, but is murdered by the Daly/Morgan henchman. Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers, but Daly is elected sheriff, and promptly brands Billy, Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws. Billy, now known as Billy the Kid, retaliates by ...
Bob Steele
as Billy the Kid
Louise Currie
as Molly Fitzgerald
Al St. John
as Fuzzy Jones
Carleton Young
as Jeff Travis
John Merton
as Lije Ellis
Joe McGuinn
as Pete Morgan
Ted Adams
as Sam Daly
Walter McGrail
as Judge Fitzgerald
Hal Price
as Sheriff Long
Kenne Duncan
as Dave Hendricks
Reed Howes
as Whitey
George Chesebro
as Tex Carson
