Bob Steele Double Feature: Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals (1941) / Big Calibre (1935) – DVD

Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals (1941, B&W): Billy the Kid and his riding partners, Jeff and Fuzzy, go undercover in the lawless border town of Paradise. Criminals run the town, threatening the few remaining good citizens. It's all part of a dark conspiracy, masterminded by corrupt banker, Hardy. He's buying up all the local property in an effort to hide an even deeper secret - a smuggling tunnel he's digging to Mexico. Starring Bob Steele, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, Charleston Young; Directed by Sherman Scott.

Big Calibre (1935, B&W): Fiendish chemist Otto Zenz uses poison gas to kill Bob O'Neill's father. As the local assayer, Zenz knows that the O'Neills have struck it rich prospecting, and he steals their small fortune before escaping into the desert. Bob tracks Zenz to a distant town, where the outlaw continues his evil ways, disguised and under an assumed name. To recover his money, Bob must unmask the diabolical killer. Starring Bob Steele, Forrest Taylor, John Eliot, Earl Dwire; Directed by Robert N. Bradbury.

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