Prairie Pioneers

February. 16,1941

Rating：

5.7

Genre：

Western

Keywords：

Three Mesquiteers

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke

Bob Steele as Tucson Smith

Rufe Davis as Lullaby Joslin

Robert Kellard as Roberto Ortega

Guy D'Ennery as Don Miguel Ortega

Davison Clark as Don Carlos Montoya

Jack Ingram as Wade - Henchman

Kenneth MacDonald as Fields (as Ken MacDonald)

Lee Shumway as Nelson

Mary MacLaren as Martha Nelson

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Reviews

Stometer

1941/02/16

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Kidskycom

1941/02/17

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

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Dynamixor

1941/02/18

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Stephan Hammond

1941/02/19

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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bkoganbing

1941/02/20

Prairie Pioneers finds the 3 Mesquiteers leading a wagon train to California. There's tension between the Americans and the Mexicans who were there before. But in some cases greed as united certain members of both groups.But it's the Mesquiteers who are divided in this film. Bob Steele's old friend Robert Kellard is the son of the local Ponderosa owner Don Guy D'Ennery. He gets framed for murder forcing D'Ennery to sell. Robert Livingston is heart and soul with the newly arriving Americans.But the bad guys are another Don, Davison Clark and the owner of a local mining company that uses hydraulics Kenneth MacDonald. MacDonald and his methods would leave his land a slag heap, but that's hardly his concern.It was nice to see the Mesquiteers who were pretty close to breaking up get it together for the final showdown.

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