Wild Horse Phantom

"Mystery Rider Dares Nest of Killers to Avenge Justice!"

1944 0h 54m EN

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5.6

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★5.6TMDB · 7

WesternCrime

Synopsis

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A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.

“Mystery Rider Dares Nest of Killers to Avenge Justice!”

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Cast

Buster Crabbe
Billy Carson
Al St. John
Fuzzy Jones
Janet Warren
Marian Garnet
Kermit Maynard
Link Daggett
Budd Buster
Ed Garnet
Hal Price
Clipp Walters
Robert Meredith
Tom Hanlon
Frank Ellis
Kallen

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: Milton Raison, George Wallace Sayre
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 54-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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82 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sam Newfield, shot by Jack Greenhalgh. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Holbrook N. Todd shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Buster Crabbe and Al St. John and Janet Warren carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Mystery Rider Dares Nest of Killers to Avenge Justice!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Sam Newfield directs. Jack Greenhalgh behind the camera. Holbrook N. Todd cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 54-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
282 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Sam Newfield, shot by Jack Greenhalgh. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor Holbrook N. Todd shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Buster Crabbe and Al St. John and Janet Warren carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Mystery Rider Dares Nest of Killers to Avenge Justice!".
9IMDB entry: tt0037464 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 7 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Jack Greenhalgh
Editing: Holbrook N. Todd
Runtime: 54 min · 0h 54m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Wild Horse Phantom (1944)

Part of

Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) Collection

The Western outlaw as played by Buster Crabbe. Starting in 1943, the character was named Billy Carson

Also by

Sam Newfield

Community reviews

What people are saying

CinemaSerf2025-02-23
★ 5/10
Sometimes I wonder if the script meetings for these films just took last week’s and re-arranged the page numbers. This hasn’t anything remotely original about it as it allows “Billy” (Buster Crabbe) to yet again find himself blamed for a crime - this time a bank robbery - so he and trusty steed “Falcon”, diverted by some typically clowning antics from “Fuzzy” (Al St. John), have to get to the bottom of things. This does raise quite an interesting legal principle. You have cash in the bank, it gets robbed, you also owe the bank money and they want their debt settled. You can’t pay because they lost your money, but they need you to pay so they can give it back to you. Quite a conundrum, eh? Anyway, in order to get himself sorted, “Carson” has to infiltrate a deadly gang and then follow the golden thread via what might be an haunted mine and is definitely a feisty “Marian” (Janet Warren) before all hell breaks lose. The production is a shambles, the only things missing from shot are mobile phones and the continuity person was clearly enjoying one or two of the bar scenes a little too enthusiastically. It’s all formula stuff, but Crabbe makes for decent eye-candy and it’s really all about the horse, anyway.

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