Movie Review: the Three Mesquiteers

[smithee_awards]

So, what do you call a post-WWI, pre-WWII tale of Ranchers vs. Homesteaders (with the added twist that the homesteaders are returning WWI veterans)? How about "The Three MesquiteersTurns out this is the beginning of a whole series of short movies, sort of like the Buck Rogers serials. But in the Not Quite So Old West. In fact, one of the first

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[mattquirk]

The returning veteran concept was quite good - I found myself humming a bunch of the tunes from my granddad's old collection of WWI era 78's. The thing is, I think the studio had a stack of old Western Movie scripts that they wanted to shoot. The movie totally jettisoned any connection to modernity the moment that the homesteaders traded in their jeeps and motorcycles for horses and covered wagons, and only brought it back when they realized they'd written themselves into a corner at the end.

[badmovie]

Sort of the opposite of Gunbus, where the gunfighters get "drafted" into combat as WWI pilots.