Gunsmoke Ranch
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Cast & Crew
Joseph Kane
Robert Livingston
Ray Corrigan
Max Terhune
Kenneth Harlan
Julia Thayer
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Synopsis
After many homes and families are destroyed by floods, Phineas Flagg, crooked owner of the Paradise Land Syndicate, offers ranches to the refugees with no money down. The Three Mesquiteers, Lullaby Joslin, Stony Brook and Tucson Smith, sell their land to Flagg hoping to help the settlers, only to discover he has purchased the land at two dollars per acre, but plans to sell it for fifty dollars per acre to the government. The Mesquiteers try to warn the settlers of Flagg's deceit, but they continue to place their trust in him. The settlers create the Three-Score and Ten township and improve the land. When a surveyor deems the land condemned, the Mesquiteers purchase the Warren ranch so the government will not be able to deal solely with Flagg. Two settlers, Williams and Warren, are kidnapped, and the ransom demanded is the deed to Warren's land. Tucson and Stony leave the deed in the appointed place, and Warren is sent back nearly dead. Just before he dies, he reveals the link between Flagg and Williams. In order to entrap Flagg and his men, the Mesquiteers pretend to take Warren to the hospital and lead Flagg's men directly into an ambush by the townspeople. The Mesquiteers capture Flagg and Williams and arrest them. In the meantime, a romance has grown between Stony and Warren's daughter Marian, despite competition from Tucson.
Director
Joseph Kane
Cast
Robert Livingston
Ray Corrigan
Max Terhune
Kenneth Harlan
Julia Thayer
Sammy Mckim
Oscar And Elmer
Burr Caruth
Allen Connor
Yakima Canutt
Horace Carpenter
Jane Keckley
Bob Walker
Jack Ingram
Jack Kirk
Loren Riebe
Vinegar Roan
Wes Warner
Jack Padjan
Crew
Oliver Drake
Oliver Drake
Oliver Drake
Terry Kellum
Raoul Kraushaar
William Colt Macdonald
Jack Natteford
William O'connor
Gus Peterson
Russell Schoengarth
Murray Seldeen
Sol C. Siegel
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Contemporary sources do not reveal the title of the song, nor do they corroborate the Screen Achievements Bulletin credit of Jack Natteford as songwriter. According to a modern source, Fred "Snowflake" Toones, John Merton, Robert McKenzie, Ed Piel, Sr. and Fred Burns were in the cast. For further information on the series, consult the Series Index and see the entry below for The Three Mesquiteers.
