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Gangster's Den is a 1945 American Producers Releasing Corporation Western film of the "Billy the Kid" series directed by Sam Newfield. The film is notable for having three comedy relief characters; Al St. John, Emmett Lynn, and Charles King, who usually plays the villain.

Plot

Fuzzy (Al St. John) is upset that the ranch hands spend their time and money at a saloon where they lose their money drinking and gambling. Fuzzy decides to buy the saloon to keep an eye on the men and moderate their vices, but a shifty lawyer has other ideas and plans to use murder to get his way.

Cast

• Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson
• Al St. John as Fuzzy Jones
• Sydney Logan as Ruth Lane
• Charles King as Butch
• Emmett Lynn as Webb aka Webfoot
• Kermit Maynard as Henchman Curt
• Ed Cassidy as Sheriff
• I. Stanford Jolley as Lawyer Horace Black
• George Chesebro as Dent, Black Henchman
• Karl Hackett as Old Man Taylor, Bar Owner
• Michael Owen as Jimmy Lane, Ruth's Brother

See also

The "Billy the Kid" films starring Buster Crabbe:

• 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)
• Fuzzy Settles Down (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)
• 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)

External links

• Gangster's Den at IMDb
• Gangster's Den is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive