Under Texas Skies (1940 film)
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Under Texas Skies is a 1940 American Western
"Three Mesquiteers
" B-movie
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 - Lois Ranson as Helen Smith
- Henry Brandon as Tom Blackton
- Wade BotelerWade BotelerWade Boteler was an American film actor. He appeared in over 430 films between 1919 and 1943.He was born in Santa Ana, California, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...
as Sheriff Brooke - 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 Jim Marsden - Jack IngramJack Ingram (actor)Jack Ingram was an American film actor. He appeared in over 300 films between 1935 and 1966, according to the Internet Movie Data Base.He was born in Illinois, and died in Canoga Park, California of a heart attack...
as Henchman Finley - Walter TetleyWalter TetleyWalter Tetley , an American voice actor, was a child impersonator in radio's classic era, with regular roles on The Great Gildersleeve and The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, as well as continuing as a voice-over artist in animated cartoons, commercials, and spoken-word record albums...
as Theodore - Barber-Shop Boy - Yakima CanuttYakima CanuttYakima Canutt , also known as Yak Canutt, was an American rodeo rider, actor, stuntman and action director.-Biography:...
as Henchman Talbot - Earle HodginsEarle HodginsEarle Hodgins was an American actor. He appeared in over 330 films and television shows between 1932 and 1963.-Selected filmography:* Paradise Canyon * Aces and Eights * Oh, Susanna!...
as Smithers - the Barber - Curley Dresden as Jackson - Barber-Shop Customer