excellent quality of BR disc.....from an owner
I just received this and the other three new BR discs from the John Wayne Three Mesquiteers era. The Amazon.com review of the story almost takes longer to read than the movie is long. I'm just kidding but its a 56 minute film as they all are and I surmise the reason they are on separate discs and so expensive is because the market is small. On all films the picture quality is sharp and stunning at times and the sound is robust. These are fun films and its a hoot to see young Duke riding a big white horse with his oversized white hat. Some of the horse chase scenes in all the films is really stirring as the camera is just ahead of the horses and to see them charging at full speed in HD is pretty cool. These are sort of silly/stupid scripts and sadly Duke Wayne isn't the main star...he is co starring so he's not on camera as much as I'd like but I am a fan and am glad I picked them up. This will be my review for all four films as they were all made within a couple year period all...
"The Three Mesquiteers Series ... Overland Stage Raiders (1938) ... Republic"
Republic Pictures presents "OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS" (20 September 1938) (54 mins/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) -- The series was based on a series of western novels by William Colt MacDonald, which began with "Law of the .45's" in 1933 --- The Three Mesquiteers is the umbrella title for a series of 51 western B-movies released between 1936 and 1943, including 8 films starring John Wayne --- The name was a play on The Three Musketeers, and each film featured a trio of stars --- The series blended the traditional Western period with more modern elements, which was not unknown with other B-Western films and serials --- Towards the end of the series, during World War II, the trio of cowboys were opposing Nazis --- The Three Mesquiteers series was extremely popular at the time of its release --- The series was the only one of its kind to be specifically named and ranked in contemporary polls of the top western film stars --- For example, from 1937 to the end of the...
The Old West Was Never Like This!
Grade B Western starring a very young John Wayne. The Three Mesquiteers take time out from punching cattle and go into the transport business. The bad guys running the local stage-line take issue with their potential loss of business, and try to sabotage our heroes' enterprising efforts. This is one of those old Western movies that confuses the Old West with modern times (circa. 1938). The cowboys wear boots, carry guns, and ride horses, just as usual. But the Oro Grande Stage Company "stagecoach" is really a bus. Besides that, there are radios and telephones around town. Even more shocking, the new express company that the Mesquiteers help establish is really an airline! They only have one airplane, but, by golly, it's an airline! This creates an amusing "other worldly" quality that takes some adjustment time for the unwary viewer. One scene shows John Wayne unloading gas cans from a mule pack train and gassing the grounded airplane while...
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