Raiders of the West - DVD

A notorious gang of rustlers expands their operation by smuggling stolen jewels across the border. U.S. marshals "Nevada Jack" McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins are sent to investigate, working separately and undercover in their usual fashion. Suspicion falls on Bonita Bayne, the pretty young owner of a trading post that sells newly made pottery in which the gems have been hidden. Johnny Mack Brown's early Monogram Westerns are a continuation

After the end of the Mexican-American War, a small group of soldiers led by Captain Angus McKane seize land along the border. The power-mad military officer sets himself up as a dictator, torturing anyone who refuses to bend to his will. Word of his barbaric rule soon reaches the ears of crusading U.S. Marshal Faron Young. The lawman gathers a posse to overthrow McKane's gang of thugs. Learning of Young's planned uprising, McKane forces

The Three Mesquiteers was the umbrella title for a series of fifty-one B-westerns released between 1936 and 1943. The films featured the characters Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith and Lullaby Joslin or Rusty Joslin as the threesome; played by many B-western stars of that era. In 1938, John Wayne took over for Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke and starred in eight Mesquiteers films between 1938 and 1939, he was joined by Ray Corrigan as Tucson Smith and Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin for the first six and Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin for the last two... all eight films were directed by George Sherman (Big Jake). John Ford's Stagecoach was perfectly sandwiched between the eight films and John Wayne portrayal of the outlaw gunfighter made him a superstar and ended Wayne's Stony Brooke run. Livingston was rehired as Brooke and went on to make fourteen more Mesquiteers films and for an incredible total of twenty-nine. Overland Stage Raiders (the second of eight Wayne Mesquiteers films) co-stars silent film icon, Louise Brooks (in her final performance) and Anthony Marsh as siblings who partner up with the three amigos to save their struggling airline, standing in their way is an evil business man and his band of outlaws.