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The Drifter

1944 1h 2m Western List
Reviews Good-hearted cowboy Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) is arrested when he is confused with Drifter Davis (also Crabbe), a look-alike bank robber. Once he's released, Billy pretends to be Davis in order to foil the criminal's next heist. But, at the traveling medicine show Davis uses as a cover for his crimes, Billy encounters his old friend, Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al "Fuzzy" St. John), who also mistakes him for Davis and takes him back to jail -- where Fuzzy inadvertently releases the real criminal. Read More Read Less
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Synopsis Good-hearted cowboy Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) is arrested when he is confused with Drifter Davis (also Crabbe), a look-alike bank robber. Once he's released, Billy pretends to be Davis in order to foil the criminal's next heist. But, at the traveling medicine show Davis uses as a cover for his crimes, Billy encounters his old friend, Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al "Fuzzy" St. John), who also mistakes him for Davis and takes him back to jail -- where Fuzzy inadvertently releases the real criminal.
Director
Sam Newfield
Screenwriter
Patricia Harper
Genre
Western
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 2m