Sheriff of Sage Valley

1942 film by Sam Newfield

George Wallace Sayre (original screenplay)
Milton Raison (original screenplay)

Produced bySigmund Neufeld (producer)StarringSee belowCinematographyJack GreenhalghEdited byHolbrook N. ToddDistributed byProducers Releasing Corporation

Release date

September 2, 1942 (1942-09-02)

Running time

57 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Sheriff of Sage Valley is a 1942 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield.^[1]

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 the other passengers. Upon arrival in Sage Valley Mayor Jed Harrison appoints Billy Sheriff to arrest the criminal mastermind Kansas Ed that turns out to be Billy's long lost brother.^[2]

Cast

Buster Crabbe as Billy the Kid / Kansas Ed Bonney
Al St. John as Fuzzy
Dave O'Brien as Jeff
Maxine Leslie as Janet Morley – Casino Singer
Charles King as Sloane, Casino Proprietor
John Merton as Nick Gaynor – Kansas Henchman
Kermit Maynard as Henchman Slim Jankins
Hal Price as Mayor Jed Harrison

Production

Historical inaccuracies

This film takes a significant amount of poetic license with historical fact. Billy the Kid was never a hero made sheriff, and he did not have a twin brother.^[2]

Reception

In its December 9, 1942 edition, Variety noted that this low budget indie film "ranks with the best in the field".^[2]

Soundtrack

Maxine Leslie – "The Man Who Broke My Heart" (Written by Johnny Lange and Lew Porter)

References

^ Pitts, Michael R. (January 4, 2013). Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films, 2d ed. McFarland. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-7864-6372-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rainey, Buck (November 17, 2015). Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film: Hollywood's Famous Lawmen and Outlaws. McFarland. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-4766-0328-5.

External links

Sheriff of Sage Valley at IMDb
Sheriff of Sage Valley is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Billy the Kid

Films

Billy the Kid (1911)
Billy the Kid (1930)
Billy the Kid Returns (1938)
Billy the Kid (1941)
The Outlaw (1943)
Son of Billy the Kid (1949)
The Kid from Texas (1950)
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
Dirty Little Billy (1972)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985)
Young Guns (1988)
Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid (1989)
Young Guns II (1990)
The Kid (2019)

Billy the Kid film series (1940–46)	Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940) Billy the Kid in Texas (1940) Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940) Billy the Kid's Range War (1941) Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals (1941) Billy the Kid in Santa Fe (1941) 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) 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) Fuzzy Settles Down (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)

Billy the Kid
film series
(1940–46)