The Drifter

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Buster Crabbe, Carol Parker, Al St. John, and Falcon the Horse in The Drifter (1944)

A Robin Hood-type outlaw (Buster Crabbe) rides the range and helps others. Another outlaw who looks just like him (also played by Crabbe) tries to cash in on the other outlaw's reputation.A Robin Hood-type outlaw (Buster Crabbe) rides the range and helps others. Another outlaw who looks just like him (also played by Crabbe) tries to cash in on the other outlaw's reputation.A Robin Hood-type outlaw (Buster Crabbe) rides the range and helps others. Another outlaw who looks just like him (also played by Crabbe) tries to cash in on the other outlaw's reputation.

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6.1/10

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Buster Crabbe

Billy Carson…

Falcon the Horse

Billy's Horse
(as Falcon)

Al St. John

Fuzzy Q. Jones
(as Al 'Fuzzy' St.John)

Carol Parker

Sally Dawson

Jack Ingram

Dirk Trent

Jimmy Aubrey

Sheriff Perkins

Slim Whitaker

Marshal Hodges

Ray Bennett

Simms

Kermit Maynard

Jack - Henchman

Roy Brent

Sam - Henchman

George Chesebro

Blackie - Henchman

Herman Hack

Townsman
(uncredited)

Robert F. Hill

Banker Barton
(uncredited)

Fox O'Callahan

Townsman
(uncredited)

Wally West

Henchman
(uncredited)

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7Johnboy1221

A good one

This my favorite of all the Billy The kid movies Buster Crabbe made. Why? I always liked seeing him play a bad guy, and here we get a two-fer, as he plays dual roles, our hero, and his look-alike double bad guy.

He made three such films over the course of the series, but this one is the best, by far. If you don't have any of the series, this is the one to check out. Buster rocks! The bad guys need to get rid of Billy, and one of them just happens to find a guy who looks just like Billy (the drifter). Once Billy is safely tucked away in jail, wanted for robbery and murder, the only thing left for the ring-leaders is to get rid of the drifter. What they don't count on is that the real Billy has been broken out of jail, and gets to their hideout right after the drifter gets his payoff.

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The earliest documented telecast of this film in the New York City area was Thursday 30 September 1948 on WATV (Channel 13), which broadcast from Newark, New Jersey, and was the first independent television station in the New York City market.