Billy "The Kid" Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who postpones his life of crime when he is befriended and hired by peaceful cattle rancher Eric Keating. When Keating is killed by a rival, Billy seeks revenge, even if it means opposing his old friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Robert Taylor
• Brian Donlevy
• Ian Hunter
• Mary Howard
• Gene Lockhart
• Lon Chaney Jr.
• Henry O'Neill
• Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams