Blazing Frontier (1943) User Reviews

Decent but not there best work.

[legion-of-angels · 6/10 · 15 July 2009]

Overall I didn't think it was too bad, but it didn't seem to have that piece of their typical episodes that kept me interested for that long. Different is good of course, and it's good for the movies they did, but I liked some of there other movies better.

Billy the Kid is always the good guy by the way, unlike the newer Young Gun movies of the 90s where he is portrayed as an anti-hero. Most of the time in all his movies the Sheriff is after him but always Billy is wrongly accused.

I think I like some of the camera work in this the best, showing some different riding scenes for once, but also using a lot of what looks like the same riding scenes in each movie. Fuzzy plays his typical role of the sort of clueless sidekick with Billy calling the shots. But Fuzzy makes up for this with some comic work.

Not a bad movie, but not one of there best.

Lackluster Final Film In P.R.C.'s Billy The Kid Series

[FightingWesterner · 5/10 · 8 October 2009]

Billy the kid and his sidekick Fuzzy get involved in a land dispute between a crooked railroad and the angry settlers that were the victims of the railroad's swindle.

The last of Producers Releasing Corporation's Billy The Kid series, this isn't one of the best, lacking any real action or suspense. There's just too much talk and not enough of the good stuff.

The best thing about it is Al St. John's comic performance in the scenes where Fuzzy pretends to be a crazy explosives expert.

After this entry, P.R.C, probably tired of celebrating a real life murderer, changed the character's name from Billy Bonney to Billy Carson and launched a new series with Buster Crabbe and Al St. John now squarely on the side of law and order.

Billy the Kid as a Good Guy !

[revdrcac · 4/10 · 19 July 2006]

This was the last in the long-running Billy the Kid series of low budget westerns. Buster Crabbe stars again, with his comical, whiskered sidekick Fuzzy St. John. This time, they are summoned to get to the bottom of some shady shenanigans being conducted by nefarious railroad agents.

Buster Crabbe and Fuzzy were a good team, performing the best they could with very limited resources. The script here was adequate, but not very unique. Good cast support is given by Kermit Maynard and the very prolific George Chesboro.

The print quality I saw was very poor, so beware. Fans of western programmers will find this one "okay" .........

Pilot light barely on

[bkoganbing · 3/10 · 11 June 2012]

Blazing Frontier will hardly stir a flame of interest in you. Only dedicated fans of the Billy The Kid series will think much of this one, the pilot light is barely on.

Buster Crabbe and Fuzzy St. John are sent for by Milton Kibbee who is a lawyer and had gotten them off in court once. Now Kibbee is representing some small ranchers who are getting ripped off by the railroad they've given right of way to.

A lot of the appeal in this series is the comedy of Al St. John, but way too much reliance is placed on it here. Part of the scam is to make the bad guys believe St. John is a dangerous killer. Buster Crabbe couldn't even keep a straight face with this one. I don't know anyone who could. The comedy that's supposed to be here sinks like Nolan Ryan's slider.

Just too incredibly dumb to be funny.