Overland Stage Raiders

• Director: George Sherman
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Western
• Movie Type: B-Western
• Themes: Taming the West
• Main Cast: John Wayne, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Louise Brooks, Anthony Marsh
• Release Year: 1938
• Country: US
• Run Time: 55 minutes

Plot

The "Three Mesquiteers"--John Wayne, Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune--find themselves in the modern-day west in Overland Stage Raiders. The "stages" being raided are actually Greyhound buses, bearing gold shipments to the east. Airborne hijackers steal the gold, but the Mesquiteers vanquish the crooks, then parachute to safety. Overland Stage Raiders represents John Wayne's second appearance in Republic's Three Mesquiteers series, but never mind that. The film's leading lady was former silent star and future cult- figure Louise Brooks, the hauntingly beautiful leading lady of G.W. Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora's Box, here making her last film appearance. When asked in later years why she would accept such an unprepossessing project, the no-nonsense Brooks replied that she needed the three hundred dollars. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• John Wayne - Stony Brooke
• Max "Alibi" Terhune - Lullaby Joslin
• Louise Brooks - Beth Hoyt
• Anthony Marsh - Ned Hoyt

Gordon Hart - Mullins; Roy James - Harmon; Olin Francis - Jake; Fern Emmett - Ma Hawkins; Henry Otho - Sheriff; George Sherwood - Clanton; Arch Hall Sr. - Waddell; Frank LaRue - Milton; John Beach; Ralph Bowman - Bob Whitney (billed as Ralph Bowman); Ray "Crash" Corrigan - Tuscan Smith; Curley Dresden; Milt Kibbee; Jack Kirk; Bud McClure; Bud Osborne; Charles "Slim" Whitaker - Hawkins; Yakima Canutt - Bus Driver; George Sherman - Clinton; Dirk Thane; Tommy Coats; George Plues

Credit

William A. Berke - Associate Producer, George Sherman - Director, Tony Martinelli - Editor, William Nobles - Cinematographer, Bernard McConville - Screen Story, Ed Kelso - Screen Story, Luci Ward - Screenwriter

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