The Three Mesquiteers Collection

TOTAL BINGE TIME: 48h 2m

The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline

The Three Mesquiteers

Released: 1936 // Runtime: 61m // Rating: 5.0

When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.

1936

Ghost Town Gold

Released: 1936 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 4.5

The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayor who ordered them to leave town.

1936

Roarin' Lead

Released: 1936 // Runtime: 61m // Rating: 5.0

The Three Mesquiteers fight cattle rustlers.

1936

The Riders of the Whistling Skull

Released: 1937 // Runtime: 53m // Rating: 5.2

When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlists the help of the Three Mesquiteers.

1937

Hit the Saddle

Released: 1937 // Runtime: 58m // Rating: 5.2

Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to substitute for the real leader of the herd and cause havoc and death among the ranches. With the government about to drop the restrictions on rounding up the herd, the Three Mesquiteers find themselves in the middle of the controversy after their friend, Sheriff Miller is killed by Volcano.

1937

Gunsmoke Ranch

Released: 1937 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 3.6

A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.

1937

Come on, Cowboys

Released: 1937 // Runtime: 58m // Rating: 5.5

Harris and Rigby own a circus. Rigby is a counterfeiter and frames his partner. The Mesquiteers learn Rigby is the culprit and get a confession from one of his men only to lose the case when the man is murdered in jail. The Mesquiteers try again and send Lullaby to try and win some of the fake bills in a card game.

1937

Range Defenders

Released: 1937 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 2.5

Stony's brother George has been accused of murder and the Mesquiteers have returned to prove his innocence. But they find that Harvey rules the town along with his stooge Sheriff Gray and that George won't get a fair trial.

1937

Heart of the Rockies

Released: 1937 // Runtime: 67m // Rating: 6.0

Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the criminals' deeds. But when a ranger is shot and Stony is framed for the crime, it's up to Lullaby and Tucson to prove his innocence.

1937

#10

The Trigger Trio

Released: 1937 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 6.0

In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State Agricultural Service who had come to investigate an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease. The killer is fearful that the official would quarantine his entire herd. Unfortunately for the foolish rancher, if the herd is not isolated, all of his cows and those of his neighbors will die anyway. The heroes are assisted by Buck the clever Great Dane.

1937

#11

Wild Horse Rodeo

Released: 1937 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 0.0

A champion rodeo rider returns home to track down a legendary wild horse called "Cyclone."

1937

#12

The Purple Vigilantes

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 58m // Rating: 3.0

David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men form a new vigilante group and posing as the original one plunder for loot.

1938

#13

Call The Mesquiteers

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 53m // Rating: 4.0

The Three Mesquiteers are forced to track down a train robbery ring after some of the gang hijack their truck for a getaway and the police conclude they are part of the gang, an identification which is just fine with the gang's nameless chief.

1938

#14

Outlaws of Sonora

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 5.0

Outlaws of Sonora is a 1938 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.

1938

#15

Riders of the Black Hills

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 0.0

Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) are on the case when rancher Peg Garth's (Maude Eburne) prize racehorse is abducted by bookie Rod Stevens (Tom London) and a secret cohort to prevent it from winning an important race.

1938

#16

Heroes of the Hills

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 6.0

In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to provide a model for prison reform. They are opposed by a local contractor who wants to build a standard prison.

1938

#17

Pals of the Saddle

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 5.2

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

1938

#18

Overland Stage Raiders

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 5.0

After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.

1938

#19

Santa Fe Stampede

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 5.5

The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signatures urging the governor to investigate but a friend with the petition is murdered. Stony is accused.

1938

#20

Red River Range

Released: 1938 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 5.0

The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.

1938

#21

The Night Riders

Released: 1939 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 5.5

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.

1939

#22

Three Texas Steers

Released: 1939 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 4.9

Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?

1939

#23

Wyoming Outlaw

Released: 1939 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 5.6

Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.

1939

#24

New Frontier

Released: 1939 // Runtime: 57m // Rating: 5.6

The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.

1939

#25

The Kansas Terrors

Released: 1939 // Runtime: 57m // Rating: 0.0

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.

1939

#26

Cowboys from Texas

Released: 1939 // Runtime: 55m // Rating: 2.0

Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.

1939

#27

Pioneers of the West

Released: 1940 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 0.0

Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.

1940

#28

Covered Wagon Days

Released: 1940 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 0.0

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, the Three Mesquiteers, are returning from Mexico and are stopped at the border by Army officials, who are attempting to apprehend smugglers who are buying cheap silver in Mexico and smuggling it into the States, where they can take advantage of a silver stabilizing measure and sell it at a high price.

1940

#29

Rocky Mountain Rangers

Released: 1940 // Runtime: 58m // Rating: 0.0

Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.

1940

#30

Oklahoma Renegades

Released: 1940 // Runtime: 57m // Rating: 0.0

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, known as The Three Mesquiteers, return to Oklahoma at the close of the Spanish-American War, and are concerned that some of their wounded buddies have no prospects for a satisfactory future. When the government offers preferred homesteads in the newly-opened Oklahoma territory to war veterans, they send word for their pals to join them there. Once there, the veterans meet a hostile reception as the cattlemen resent the influx of "nesters" and are determined to drive them out. Mace Liscomb and his brother Orv plan not only to drive out the homesteaders, but to also double cross the cattlemen and gain exclusive titles to the range lands for themselves. Stony and his pals eventually show the honest cattlemen that there is room for the settlers and that both are fighting a common enemy. Written by Les Adams

1940

#31

Under Texas Skies

Released: 1940 // Runtime: 57m // Rating: 5.0

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.

1940

#32

The Trail Blazers

Released: 1940 // Runtime: 58m // Rating: 0.0

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

1940

#33

Heroes of the Saddle

Released: 1940 // Runtime: 56m // Rating: 0.0

A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell, the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana. Legal technicalities, however, halt the adoption proceeding and Stony, Rusty, and Rico can only watch as the little girl is placed in the county orphanage.

1940

#34

Lone Star Raiders

Released: 1940 // Runtime: 57m // Rating: 0.0

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).

1940

#35

Prairie Pioneers

Released: 1941 // Runtime: 58m // Rating: 0.0

It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowners. The El Dorado Mine Co. wants the land of Don Ortega for the minerals and is using the settlers and his friend Don Carlos to take the land over. But Tucson is on the side of Roberto and see's that something is not right with all the trouble they have been having. But the situation turns ugly for Don Ortega when Roberto is set up for a murder he did not commit.

1941