Billy the Kid in Texas (1940)

It is a toss-up whether Bob Steele or Buster Crabbe makes the better Billy the Kid in the PRC series bearing the name of the notorious outlaw. In either case, the character has been whitewashed to the point where he resembles any other low-budget sagebrush hero. Steele at least endows the character with a certain grit lacking in the more suave Crabbe, whose Kid is even more romanticized. But when all is said and done, Billy the Kid in Texas, like so many other PRC prairie tales, belongs squarely to veteran slapstick comic Al St. John, whose character, "Fuzzy," became so popular that he, at one point, appeared in two series simultaneously, the Billy the Kid oaters and The Lone Rider Westerns. He was his endearing old self in all of them. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide