Pretty funny-bad Western here, which feature that all-time famous (sarcasm) trio, The Three Mesquiteers, as they help people who have just escaped a flood (which caused DESOLATION, PESTILATION and FAMINE, (so say the cue cards). They are offered ranch land in Arizona by a unscrupulous shyster, and it's up to the three to make sure Justice Is Served! So in less in an hour, we have laughably bad fights, a joke of a song, scary stunt handling, a guy doing a non-stop comedy routine with a dummy, and rather offensive jibes at stuttering people. All this, and this rather curious confusion with the 1930's wardrobe mixed in with western drag. Highly strange, but not really worth your time. I feel shystered myself! 2 Spuzz 2006-01-12 14:38:44 2006-01-12 14:38:44 This may not be the best of the 51 Three Mesquiteers movies Republic made from 1936-43, but it evokes nostalsia for those of us who saw them when they were a stable of early 1950s TV (or those few survivors who recall seeing them in theatres). Although Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Bob Livingston and Max Terune (the ventriloquist who seems somewhat out of place), who star in this one are the actors most familiar in the roles of William Colt McDonald's characters, others, including John Wayne, played during the series' long run. The actual time of the Mesquiteers films shifted from movie to movie, with some set in (then) contemporary times and others set in the old west (and different periods at that). These westerns have plenty of "B" action in which you occasionally can tell a roundhouse punch misses its mark, although the recipient falls anyway and counting bullets fired suggests some secret ammo feed. They're nonetheless my favorites among all of the "B" westerns, always leavened by humor, some of which works and some of which is funny because it doesn't. --Allan Maurer The Three Mesquiteers Ride Again 3 Allandale 2006-12-26 14:16:15 2006-12-26 14:16:15 It may be worth mentioning that these characters were the basis of the contemporary film - "The three Amigos." I had no idea there were 51 films in the series though. Worth a post modern deconstuctive analysis or two (heh) as transcendent magical realism No peyote here Tamlin 2007-05-10 07:52:25 2007-05-10 07:52:25 4 I think that perhaps only old fellows like myself can really enjoy these old cowboy movies because of the nostalgia it produces in our old brains. As children this genre was what we fed on. It must be remembered that in those days we didn't have TV and we also didn't have any money. We could go to one of these films for just 5 cents. Children today can't possibly know what grand times we had back then watching these corny old films. Old-time cowboy movies. Budro 2009-07-07 18:06:27 2009-07-07 18:06:27 4 4 3.25