The Three Mesquiteers Collection

John Wayne

Ray Corrigan

Raymond Hatton

Don 'Red' Barry

Pamela Blake

LeRoy Mason

Charles Middleton

Katherine Kenworthy

Elmo Lincoln

Jack Ingram

Jack Kenney

John Beach

Bob Burns

Budd Buster

Allan Cavan

Tommy Coats

George DeNormand

Curley Dresden

John Hiestand

Jack Kirk

Frankie Marvin

Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart

Dave O'Brien

Ed Payson

Ralph Peters

Jack Rockwell

Al Taylor

David Sharpe

Yakima Canutt

George Sherman

Jack Natteford

Betty Burbridge

William Colt MacDonald

Reggie Lanning

Tony Martinelli

William Lava

Western

Wyoming Outlaw

Republic Pictures

United States of America

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Interestingly for this routine B-feature, the usual "Three Mesquiteer" characters are not really at the centre of the plot. The story belongs more to 'Red' Barry ("Parker") whose father has been deceived by a crooked politician and so his son ends up having to steal to feed himself and his family. It's when he pinches a cow from Messrs. Wayne, Corrigan and Hatton that the story starts to hot up a bit and, of course, they try to redress the balance for him and his sister "Irene" (Pamela Blake). It's takes a while to get going, this one - but once the scenario has been defined, it moves along nicely with a little more chemistry between Wayne and his female co-star than we are used to. "Ming" himself, Charles Middleton appears sparingly as the hard-done-by father, and LeRoy Mason is adequate - though nothing more - as "Balsinger" - the devious villain of the piece. The film aims squarely at some of the "New Deal" policies of post WWI US governments where opportunists frequently ended up with the whip hand over those who had worked hard during the war feeding the troops, but whose services were now surplus to requirements and they were left very vulnerable to pretty ruthless exploitation.

English