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PERIL-PACKED ADVENTURE With dashing devil-may-care John Wayne leading the Mesquiteers into their greatest, most thrilling range exploits!
The first of eight "Three Mesquiteers" Westerns to star John Wayne.
Pals of the Saddle
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Freunde im Sattel, Traição no Deserto, 안장의 친구들
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28 Aug 1938
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For my next movie with the 'Three Mesquiteers' I decided to finally watch the first one John Wayne starred in, after having already seen two of his eight Mesquiteer adventures.
I'm happy to say that after watching five of these flicks there wasn't a single dud among them so far, but I'm obviously still scratching the surface of a franchise with over 50 movies that I'll most likely never complete.'Pals of the Saddle' is again directed by George Sherman, who is a very reliable western guy and continued to work with John Wayne all the way until the 70s.
This is a slightly less lurid entry, but just as likeable and fun as the last ones. John Wayne was… -
John Wayne's first outing as a member of the Three Mesquiteers. The screenplay by Stanley Roberts and Betty Burbridge is interesting for its topicality. Opening with a montage of war and newspaper headlines, the plot is concerned with the maintenance of Congress's Neutrality Acts, as the trio is tasked with foiling enemy agents smuggling the makings of poison gas out of the country. A young George Sherman directs in a fine, flowing style. The result is quality entertainment from the premier Poverty Row studio, Republic.
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After spending a unsuccessful year making non-westerns for Universal, John Wayne is "relegated" back to making B-westerns at Republic. Here he replaces Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke in The Three Mesquiteers series because Republic wanted to star Livingston in bigger projects. I hindsight maybe it would have been better to have used Wayne for that instead as Wayne's elevation to stardom would come the next year when Stagecoach (1939) was released.
But there was no doubt Republic was happy getting Wayne back in their stable of actors. He gets to be the main focus in his introduction to the series going on a solo mission as a government agent while the other two only get to be sidekicks for selected… -
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Primo degli 8 film che John Wayne gira all’interno del ciclo (composto addirittura da 51 titoli) dei Three Mesquiteers - gioco di parole tra moschettieri e mesquite (una pianta tipica del west). L’arrivo di Duke è sicuramente la nota di rilievo, la trama avrebbe del potenziale tra spionaggio, intrecci politici e traffico di sostanze velenose. Dico potrebbe perché poi, nei fatti, lo svolgimento è meno brillante di quanto sembri, anche meno rispetto ad alcuni degli episodi successivi, discorso analogo per l’azione che nei sequel vivrà momenti migliori.
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Another simple story of JW getting falsely accused of being a bad guy when hes the good guy in disguise. However, this time they added a woman with personality to the mix.
Its the first of the mesquiteers series with Wayne in the lead, you get alot of good feel for the 30's western genre, like JW in a very skin tight white tee being "not wearing a shirt" or having to censor the word "hell" out of your descriptive story about how you shot and killed a murderer to a child.
Pals of the Saddle has some nice horseriding, a nice easy to follow plot and some funny quips between characters.
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I mean it was alright. I think this is the first B western I have seen but wanted something short before going to bed. Definitely not great or anything but cool to see Wayne finding what works. The acting is very scripted but the story wasn’t bad. Wasn’t expecting a spy story in a western but it worked. Kept my interest for most of it. Not sure I will watch the rest of these though lol.
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There is a reason why I like watching The 3 Mesquiteers movies and it is not because of John Wayne, although I wouldn't watch them without him. They remind me what it would have been like to grow up in the modern (post 1920) West. There were automobiles around, but not everyone in the rural areas could afford one. My grandfather grew up on a ranch and he would ride his horse to school. A lot of the settings of the movies remind me of him. However, this movie dealt with spies and poison gas which are two things that I am fairly sure he was able to avoid.
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The first of the "3 Mesquiteers" movies to feature John Wayne does not disappoint. While this movie does not take place in the mythical western time of the 1870s it still holds up as a classic western of old Hollywood that if nothing else will make you smile.
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Pals of the Saddle might be a B Western, but it is better than many other B Westerns and serves as an effective introduction to the "Three Mesquiteers." John Wayne was featured in seven more Three Mesquiteers movies after this one, but this is not the first of the series, and in the end, over 50 were made with various actors. At times this film threatens to become a jumble of parts, with elements of crime drama, in particular, threatening to take over, but it ends as a Western with stagecoaches racing through the badlands, the cavalry charging to the rescue, and John Wayne in the saddle, bad guys at gunpoint.
The movie's beginning might be a surprise, with battle…
