The Trail Blazers
Encyclopedia
The Trail Blazers is a 1940 American Western
"Three Mesquiteers
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directed by George Sherman
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
"Three Mesquiteers
The Three Mesquiteers
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...
" B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
directed by George Sherman
George Sherman
George Sherman was a film director of action movies beginning in the 1930s. The New York-born director's films include The Sleeping City and Tomahawk.-Filmography:*Red River Range...
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Cast
- Robert LivingstonRobert Livingston (actor)Robert Livingston was an American film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1975.Often billed as "Bob Livingston," he was the original "Stony Brooke" in the "Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie series, a role later played by John Wayne for eight films...
as Stony Brooke - Bob SteeleBob Steele (actor)Bob Steele was an American actor. He was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family. After years of touring, the family settled down in Hollywood in the late 1910s, where his father, Robert N...
as Tucson Smith - Rufe DavisRufe DavisRufe Davis was an American actor. He appeared in over 30 films between 1937 and 1969, including 14 of the Three Mesquiteers titles...
as Lullaby Joslin - Pauline MoorePauline MoorePauline Moore was a popular B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she began her career moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s, and also starred on Broadway and worked as a model....
as Marcia Kelton - Weldon Heyburn as Jeff Bradley
- Carroll NyeCarroll NyeRobert Carroll Nye , better known as Carroll Nye, was an American film actor. He appeared in 58 films between 1925 and 1944, perhaps most memorably as Frank Kennedy, Scarlett's second husband, in Gone with the Wind .His brother was respected Hollywood makeup artist Ben Nye.He was born in Akron,...
as Jim Chapman - Tom ChattertonTom ChattertonTom Chatterton was an American actor.Born in Geneva, New York, Chatterton began his film career in 1913 at the New York Motion Picture Company under director Thomas H. Ince. Although never a major star, Chatterton had several leading roles in early silent films...
as Major R.C. Kelton - Si Jenks as T.L. Johnson (dentist)
- Mary FieldMary FieldMary Field was an American film actress who primarily appeared in supporting roles.- Early life :She was born in New York City, New York. As a child she never knew her biological parents. During her infancy she was left outside the doors of a church with a note pinned to her saying that her name...
as Alice Chapman - John Merton as Henchman Mason
- Rex LeaseRex LeaseRex Lloyd Lease was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in westerns. Lease was accused in 1930 by Vivian Duncan of the Duncan Sisters for assault...
as Engineer Reynolds - Robert Blair as Stage passenger