The Trail Blazers

Nov 11, 1940

0h 58m

★ 0.0

Overview

The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

Stony Brooke

Robert Livingston

Tucson Smith

Bob Steele

Lullaby Joslin

Rufe Davis

Marcia Kelton

Pauline Moore

Jeff Bradley

Weldon Heyburn

Jim Chapman

Carroll Nye

Major R.C. Kelton

Tom Chatterton

T.L. Johnson (dentist)

Si Jenks

Alice Chapman

Mary Field

Henchman Mason

John Merton

Engineer Reynolds

Rex Lease

Stage passenger

Robert Blair

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6.0

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0.0

The Kansas Terrors

Oct 5, 1939

In Kansas Terrors, Stoney and his saddle pal Rusty take a job delivering horses to a flyspeck Caribbean island. Here they join forces with Rico to topple the regime of a despotic commandante.

5.0

Under Texas Skies

Sep 29, 1940

The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.

0.0

Lone Star Raiders

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Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush heroes, Lone Star Raiders finds Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Bob Steele) and Lullaby Joslin (Rufe Davis) defending elderly rancher "Granny" Phelps (Sarah Padden) from greedy neighbor Henry Martin (George Douglas).

3.0

Westward Ho

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0.0

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6.0

Thundering Trails

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5.5

The Night Riders

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Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.

5.2

Pals of the Saddle

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The first of eight "Three Mesquiteers" Westerns to star John Wayne.

0.0

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0.0

Pals of the Pecos

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Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered and the Three Mesquiteers blamed. Young Tim Burke breaks them out of jail and they start the timed mail run to obtain the contract. But Keno and his men plan to stop them by using dynamite to make a road block.

5.0

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The Three Mesquiteers fight cattle rustlers.