70% (1) Ghost-Town Gold 55 min, APPROVED, [Action, Western] [Joseph Kane] [26 Oct 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Actors: Kay Hughes, Max Terhune, Ray Corrigan, Robert Livingston
Writer: John Rathmell (screenplay), Oliver Drake (screenplay), Bernard McConville (original story), William Colt MacDonald (based on the book by)
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Plot: The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayor who ordered them to leave town.
Rotten Tomatoes: Ghost Town Gold was the second entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" western series. Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Robert Livingston return as Tucson Smith and Stony Brooke, while Max Terhune replaces Sid Saylor as Lullaby Joslin. Almost immediately, comic ventriloquist Terhune established a rapport with his two co-stars, though audiences could have done with a lot less of his garrulous dummy Elmer. As for the plot, our three heroes try to retrieve some stolen money before an innocent banker is blamed for the theft. Adding spice to the quest is the fact that the banker has a pretty daughter (Kay Hughes). Other highlights include a typical Republic saloon-brawl scene, in which Tucson cleans the clock of head-villain Frank S. Hagney.
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68% (1) Heart of the Rockies 67 min, APPROVED, [Action, Comedy, Drama] [Joseph Kane] [06 Sep 1937]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Lynne Roberts, Max Terhune, Ray Corrigan, Robert Livingston
Writer: Jack Natteford (screenplay), Oliver Drake (screenplay), Bernard McConville (original story), William Colt MacDonald (based on characters created by)
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Plot: The Mesquiteers are supposedly losing cattle to a bear from the adjoining National park. But the culprits are the Dawson clan who kill the cattle and use Davey's pet bear to leave tracks. When Davey breaks his leg, they find a crutch mark along with the bear tracks and head after the Dawson's.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this entry in the "Three Mesquiteers" series, the trio works to stop the illegal trapping efforts of a malicious mountain clan.
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68% (1) The Range Busters 56 min, [Western, Mystery] [S. Roy Luby] [22 Aug 1940]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Elmer, John 'Dusty' King, Max Terhune, Ray Corrigan
Writer: John Rathmell (story and screenplay)
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Plot: In the first of the Range Buster series, a mysterious phantom is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the owner sends for the Range Busters just before he too is killed. They quickly run into trouble with Torrance and his gang. Torance is after the Circle T but Crash doesn't think he is the phantom. Instead he suspects it may be blind Uncle Rolf. When the phantom strikes next, Crash is ready and his identity is soon revealed.
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62% (1) Gunsmoke Ranch 53 min, Approved, [Action, Drama, Western] [Joseph Kane] [05 May 1937]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, External Reviews
Actors: Kenneth Harlan, Max Terhune, Ray Corrigan, Robert Livingston
Writer: Oliver Drake (screenplay), Oliver Drake (story), Jack Natteford (story), William Colt MacDonald (based on characters created by)
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Plot: During the Great Depression, when natural catastrophes including floods destroy the homes of thousands,.crooked, con man Phineas Flagg buys up all the ranches in Arizona's Gunsmoke Valley at the bargain price of $2 per acre. The displaced families are only too happy to buy what Flagg misrepresents as 40 acres of prime farmland per family at the bargain price of $50 an acre. What he doesn't tell the migrants is that the entire area has been condemned under the law of eminent domain and will soon be flooded for the construction of a new dam. The group's leader, Judge Warren, initially disregards the Mesquiteers' warnings that they're being conned,, but Stony' romances his beautiful granddaughter Marion,, and the settlers accept the Mesquiteers' help,, but is it too late?
Rotten Tomatoes: One of the timelier Three Mesquiteers westerns, Gunsmoke Ranch was inspired by the Ohio and Mississippi river floodings of 1937. As usual, the Mesquiteers are Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Ray "Crash" Corrigan) and Lullaby Joslin (Max Terhune). After rescuing young Marion (Julia Thayer) from the rising flood waters, our three heroes take on a no-good varmint (Kenneth Harlan) who is capitalizing on the disaster by buying up land dirt cheap. Comedy relief is provided by cornpone vaudevillians Oscar and Elmer, who are about as funny as an eviction notice. Actual newsreel footage of the previous years' floods adds a veneer of credibility to Gunsmoke Ranch.
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61% (1) Red River Range 56 min, [Western] [George Sherman] [22 Dec 1938]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: John Wayne, Max Terhune, Polly Moran, Ray Corrigan
Writer: Stanley Roberts (screenplay), Betty Burbridge (screenplay), Luci Ward (screenplay), Luci Ward (original story), William Colt MacDonald (based on characters created by)
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Plot: The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.
Rotten Tomatoes: The villains in the "Three Mesquiteers" entry Red River Range are bunch of progressive cattle thieves. This being 1939, the bad guys round up their stolen goods and herd them into streamlined trucks. It's a plot device that had previously used in Republic's Gene Autry series, but it still had plenty of mileage here. Riding to the rescue are the Mesquiteers, who on this occasion consist of John Wayne (Stony Brooke), Ray Corrigan (Tucson Smith) and Max Terhune (Lullaby Joslin). Lorna Gray, aka Adrian Booth, is the heroine, while raucuous comedy relief is provided by old-timer Polly Moran. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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59% (1) Three Texas Steers 56 min, PASSED, [Action, Western] [George Sherman] [12 May 1939]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews
Actors: Carole Landis, John Wayne, Max Terhune, Ray Corrigan
Writer: Betty Burbridge (original screenplay), Stanley Roberts (original screenplay), William Colt MacDonald (based on characters created by)
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Plot: Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?
Rotten Tomatoes: Forever switching its time-frame from past to present, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series returned to a contemporary milieu for Three Texas Steers. The story revolves around a bankrupt circus, and the efforts made by Stony (John Wayne), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) to save the show from going under. Carole Landis, a starlet on the verge of bigger things, plays circus owner Nancy, whose efforts to stay afloat are undermined by the covert machinations of her "faithful"manager Ward (Ralph Graves). The film's outcome hinges on a big race, with the circus' dancing horse as a contestant; this scene includes an unexpected moment of high comedy, at once relieving and compounding the tension! Three Texas Steers represented Terhune's "adios" to the Mesquiteers; his replacement in Wyoming Outlaw was Raymond Hatton. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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54% (1) The Kid's Last Ride 55 min, Not Rated, [Western] [S. Roy Luby] [10 Feb 1941]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 54%, External Reviews
Actors: Elmer, John 'Dusty' King, Max Terhune, Ray Corrigan
Writer: Earle Snell (screenplay), Earle Snell (story)
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Plot: Harmon forces Jimmy to reveal the location of some hidden money. When Harmon's men go after the money, the Range Busters break up the attempted robbery. For his next move, Harmon lays a trap for Crash.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this entry in the Range Busters series of westerns, the brave threesome enter a lawless town to help end a bitter feud between outlaw brothers.
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