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When a group of World War I buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.
1936 American western B film starring Bob Livingston, in the role later played by John Wayne, Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Syd Saylor. It is the first in a series of 51 "Three Mesquiteers" films based on characters from the novels written by William Colt MacDonald, eight of which starred John Wayne. The film was directed by Ray Taylor, produced by Nat Levine and written by Jack Natteford.
Set in the year 1919, after World War I, military veterans Lullaby Joslin and Bob Bryant are recovering from their wounds at a US Veterans Hospital and decide to head to the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, with some other veterans and apply for ownership of the land that is gifted through the Homestead Laws. Lullaby, Bob, and the other veterans arrive in Carrizozo, New Mexico and meet Stony Brooke and Tucson Smith, as well as Brack Canfield, who advises the men to continue heading west for their own good. Bob and the other veterans trade their vehicles for horses and covered wagons for the trip to the San Juan Basin.
The Three Mesquiteers is the general title of a Republic Pictures series of 51 American B Western films released between 1936 and 1943. The films, featuring a trio of Old West adventurers, were based on a series of Western novels by William Colt MacDonald, who wrote a series of novels about The Three Mesquiteers, beginning with The Law of 45 in 1933. The name "Mesquiteer" was a play on words referring to mesquite, a plant common in the Western states, and to the characters from the 1844 Alexandre Dumas novel The Three Musketeers. The film series combined the traditional Western period with more modern elements, a technique used in other B-Western films and series. Towards the end of the series, during World War II, the trio of cowboys were opposing the Nazis. One film, Outlaws of Sonora (1938), has a revisionist theme as an early example of the outlaw/gunslinger subgenre.
1936 American western B film starring Bob Livingston, in the role later played by John Wayne, Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Syd Saylor. It is the first in a series of 51 "Three Mesquiteers" films based on characters from the novels written by William Colt MacDonald, eight of which starred John Wayne. The film was directed by Ray Taylor, produced by Nat Levine and written by Jack Natteford.
Set in the year 1919, after World War I, military veterans Lullaby Joslin and Bob Bryant are recovering from their wounds at a US Veterans Hospital and decide to head to the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, with some other veterans and apply for ownership of the land that is gifted through the Homestead Laws. Lullaby, Bob, and the other veterans arrive in Carrizozo, New Mexico and meet Stony Brooke and Tucson Smith, as well as Brack Canfield, who advises the men to continue heading west for their own good. Bob and the other veterans trade their vehicles for horses and covered wagons for the trip to the San Juan Basin.
The Three Mesquiteers is the general title of a Republic Pictures series of 51 American B Western films released between 1936 and 1943. The films, featuring a trio of Old West adventurers, were based on a series of Western novels by William Colt MacDonald, who wrote a series of novels about The Three Mesquiteers, beginning with The Law of 45 in 1933. The name "Mesquiteer" was a play on words referring to mesquite, a plant common in the Western states, and to the characters from the 1844 Alexandre Dumas novel The Three Musketeers. The film series combined the traditional Western period with more modern elements, a technique used in other B-Western films and series. Towards the end of the series, during World War II, the trio of cowboys were opposing the Nazis. One film, Outlaws of Sonora (1938), has a revisionist theme as an early example of the outlaw/gunslinger subgenre.
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