Gunsmoke Ranch (1937)

★★★★★ · "Crash" Corrigan Rides Again! · Big Boomer · 2017-04-29

Ray "Crash" Corrigan was a very popular B movie actor during the 1930s and 1940s. The nickname Crash was thought up by studio execs because it sounded similar to "Flash" of the Flash Gordon series. Corrigan played in a similar series for Republic Pictures called "Undersea Kingdom". His character in that series was "Crash Corrigan". In 1937, Corrigan bought over 200 acres in Simi Valley where he built a movie ranch. Many westerns were filmed there. In the 1950s and 1960s, TV shows such as Have Gun Will Travel, Rin Tin Tin, The Lone Ranger and even episodes of Star Trek were shot at…

★★★★ · No peyote here · Tamlin · 2007-05-10

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

★★★ · The Three Mesquiteers Ride Again · Allandale · 2006-12-26

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…

★★★ · The 3 Mesquiteer Right Wrongs As Usual · Poohbah70 · 2019-12-10

Another action packed movie starring "The Three Mesquiteers": vocalist Robert Livingstone, his constant rival for the women they meet Ray Corrigan, and ventriloquist Max Terhune and his dummy Elmer. Here they foil particularly nasty land swindle plans of Kenneth Harlan (Phineas T. Flagg) and his henchmen who include regular western bad guys Allen Connor (Reggie Allen), Yakima Canutt (Spider) and others. Julia Thayer (aka Jean Carmen) is the attractive love interest that Livingstone and Corrigan, as usual, fight over. She could actually ride a horse well and started off in film by being a…

★★ · I feel shystered myself! · Spuzz · 2006-01-12

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…

19th Century People · qwerty1235 · 2019-12-01

Watching the older actors appearing in this 1937 film, it struck me that the folks born of that 1870-1880’s time were a jollier bunch than folks today.