a5c7b9f00b A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot. Billy Carson gets the Governor to let Daggett and his gang escape from prison in hopes that they will lead him to the money they got when they robbed the bank. Billy and Fuzzy trail the gang to an old mine, but it looks like Billy&#39;s plan will fail when Daggett is unable to remember where he hid the money. Although &quot;Wild Horse Phantom&quot; is not the worst entry in the well-named PRC (actually Producers Releasing Corp., but the initials could well stand for Poverty Row Cra.. Well, let&#39;s say Collections) Billy the Kid/Billy Carson series, it earns a pride of place here because it re-uses The Devil Bat from the studio&#39;s 1941 Bela Lugosi release with that title. <br/><br/>Buster Crabbe and Fuzzy St John spend most of their footage in a spooky mine. Kermit Maynard is the vicious, if forgetful villain. (This movie was once available on an excellent Retromedia DVD, but I don&#39;t know if it is still in stock. But it was also available on the &quot;Fugitive of the Plains&quot; DVD! See below). <br/><br/>Kermit Maynard turns up again in the slightly better &quot;Fugitive of the Plains&quot; (1943) in which the lovely Maxine Leslie manages to overcome sloppy editing, scads of stock footage, obvious doubles, an incoherent plot, tedious comic relief, inept direction (Sam Newfield) and (in the VCI &quot;Buster Crabbe&quot; DVD) image break-up plus missing footage. This DVD also features our Wild Horse Phantom - not Fuzzy Settles Downshown on the DVD&#39;s cover! This is a great &quot;B&quot; film. It reminds me of one of the Abbott and Costello films where they encounter horror situations. Al (Fuzzy) St. John provides comic reliefBuster Crabbe plays a dashing Billy Carson complete with one-liners. Worth seeking out.
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