It is then revealed that Paul is a foreign agent who has been tasked with smuggling the deadly Monium out of the country. She’d be dead by now.Īnn changes her tune about being saved once the boyfriend turns up, thanking Stony effusively before riding off with lover boy back to the local dude ranch. Lucky it wasn’t Elmer who took off after her. Meanwhile, a sneaky looking feller by the name of Paul, played by George Douglas, goes riding in the country with the lovely Ann, played by Doreen McKay.Īfter a little spat, Ann’s horse bolts and she is rescued by white knight Stony, who is rather perplexed when Ann doesn’t appear to be too grateful for being rescued in the first place. Having reviewed a later Mesquiteers film a few years ago called “The Night Riders”, I realised it’s not a deceased youngster after all it’s actually a ventriloquist’s dummy called Elmer, which is a bit of a relief seeing as I was going to abandon the review right here. There’s Stony in the middle astride his magnificent white horse, with his faithful companion Tucson Smith, played by Ray Corrigan, to the left of him, whilst to the right we see comedy relief Lullaby Joslin, played by Max Terhune, holding a dead kid in his arms. It’s already beginning to sound like one of those complicated trade federation subplots from the lamentable Star Wars prequels, and we’re barely two minutes into the film.Įventually, our heroic trio, The Three Mesquiteers, hove into view. The plot revolves around a poison gas called Monium, on which an export embargo is placed by the authorities. Taking over the lead role of Stony Brooke from Bob Livingston who played the character in all but one of the previous sixteen entries in the series, this is the first of eight Three Mesquiteers films that JW made for Republic before he hit paydirt in “ Stagecoach”.Īs with a number of other low-budget five-reeler cowboy films of the time, the series jumped about a bit in terms of historical timeline, “Pals of the Saddle” beginning with a montage of modern battle images that appears to be representing WWI but then introduces a newspaper headline declaring that “Congress Passes Neutrality Act”.Īmerica actually passed four Neutrality Acts between 1935 to 1939, placing the story somewhere in between those years.
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