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New Frontier (1939)

 -  Western  -  10 August 1939 (USA)
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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 ... See full summary »

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Celia Braddock (as Phylis Isley)
Eddy Waller ...
Major Steven Braddock
Sammy McKim ...
Stevie Braddock
LeRoy Mason ...
M.C. Gilbert
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William Proctor
Reginald Barlow ...
Judge Bill Lawson
Burr Caruth ...
Dr. William 'Doc' Hall
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Jason Braddock
Hal Price ...
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Jack Ingram ...
Harmon
Bud Osborne ...
Dickson
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Jed Turner (as Charles Whitaker)
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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. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

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10 August 1939 (USA)  »

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Frontier Horizon  »

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Jennifer Jones's film debut. See more »

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After a prologue that takes place immediately after the end of the Civil War, the body of the film takes place fifty years later, which would make it about 1914. At this time the Three Mesquiteers are supposed to be Pony Express riders; however, Pony Express only ran from 1860 to 1861, having been abandoned at the start of telegraph service. See more »

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Farewell to The Mesquiteers
30 October 2006 | by (Buffalo, New York) – See all my reviews

John Wayne said farewell to the Three Mesquiteers film series and to the character of Stoney Burke he had played in them. The Mesquiteers would continue on without the Duke as they had before him. Herbert J. Yates and Republic finally decided that Wayne had become too big a star to continue him in B westerns. His next film after this was a loan out to RKO, Allegheny Uprising.

In fact there was another change in the cast, Max Terhune left the series even before this and was replaced by Raymond Hatton.

New Frontier, not to be confused with the Kennedy administration, also has Phyllis Isley as the leading lady. Her next film would win her an Academy Award and a name change to Jennifer Jones. Of course that is the Song of Bernadette. She never did do a film with Wayne after this, but I'm guessing it was because the Duke didn't want to work for David O. Selznick.

This entry in the Mesquiteers films deals with the right of eminent domain. The Mesquiteers ranch and the property of all the others in New Hope Valley has been condemned because the state wants to build a dam for a large city and create a reservoir where their property is. This subject was dealt with in a quite serious way in Elia Kazan's film Wild River about the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Of course here it's all part of land swindle, but Stoney, Tucson, and Rusty put things to right in the end and do it with the same pioneer spirit their ancestors showed.

You would expect anything else from a John Wayne film?


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