BILLY THE KID RETURNS (1938) Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette & Lynne Roberts | Western | B&W

Billy the Kid Returns is a 1938 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.

SYNOPSIS
Rogers plays a lookalike to the dead Billy The Kid and restores the tranquility of Lincoln County after subduing the criminal element.

Following the shooting of Billy the Kid by his former friend Sheriff Pat Garrett, lookalike deputy sheriff Roy Rogers, assisted by travelling musical instrument salesman Frog Millhouse, takes his place to defend the honest settlers of Lincoln County, New Mexico, from evil ranchers.

CAST & CREW
Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers / Billy the Kid
Smiley Burnette as Frog Millhouse
Lynne Roberts as Ellen Moore
Morgan Wallace as J. B. Morganson
Fred Kohler as Matson
Wade Boteler as Sheriff Pat Garrett
Edwin Stanley as Nathaniel Moore
Horace Murphy as Mr. Miller - Homesteader
Joseph Crehan as U.S. Marshal Dave Conway
Robert Emmett Keane as Mr. Page

Directed by Joseph Kane
Written by Jack Natteford (screenplay)
Produced by Charles E. Ford
Cinematography Ernest Miller
Edited by Lester Orlebeck
Music by William Lava
Distributed by Republic Pictures
Release date September 4, 1938
Running time 53 minutes
Country United States
Language English