Oklahoma Renegades
Cast & Crew
Nate Watt
Robert Livingston
Raymond Hatton
Duncan Renaldo
Lee "lasses" White
Florine Mckinney
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Synopsis
At the close of the Spanish-American War, President Theodore Roosevelt signs an act providing veterans with homesteads in Oklahoma. Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, who are The Three Mesquiteers, encourage their war buddies to join them and begin a new life. The men, including Jim Keith, his partner, Hank Blake, Bob Wallace, Mort Johnson and Carl, who was blinded in the war, leave the National Soldiers Home and travel West. While the Mesquiteers begin staking out their friends's homesteads, local cattlemen led by Mace Liscomb and his brother Orv protest that the settlers will take the best part of the range land that they have worked hard to cultivate. A run-in with some cattlemen who are destroying their boundry markers leads the Mesquiteers to meet pretty rancher Marian Carter, who also vocalizes her displeasure about the new act. The veterans finally arrive in the town of Cottonwood and are attacked by the ranchers. The Mesquiteers become embroiled in the brawl and quickly win it with their flying fists. Mace tries to persuade the men to settle outside the valley, but the Mesquiteers insist that the land in question is theirs by law. After the friends leave town, Mace's gang sets off a dynamite charge along the trail, and the veterans lose all their supplies in the resulting landslide. The men despair, as they have no more money, but former vaudevillians Jim and Hank offer to put on a show to raise funds. The turnout promises to be low until the Mesquiteers trick the townsfolk into attending, but once the show begins, the audience becomes more amiable. Everyone, including Marian, is having a good time until Mace's gang again causes trouble by stealing the ticket money. The Mesquiteers chase the bandits and retrieve the money, but Orv is shot and killed in the struggle. The next day, the veterans begin settling in their camps when Marian arrives and tells them that Orv's death has raised the cattlemen's ire. As she is talking with the Mesquiteers, Mace exacts his revenge by strapping Jim to a team of runaway horses that drag him to his death. Stony and Rico go to the Cottonwood saloon, where they identify Mace as Jim's killer and begin fighting with the ranchers. As Mace and his men corner Stony and Rico in an abandoned building, Rusty exhorts the disheartened veterans, who are packed and ready to leave, to remain and fight. Marian, who had followed Stony and Rico, rushes to the veterans' camps and urges them to help their friends, after which the former soldiers rally and capture the gang. Soon after, the veterans are working their land and the Mesquiteers return to their own ranch after they see Carl and Marian arm in arm, happily planning their future together.
Director
Nate Watt
Cast
Robert Livingston
Raymond Hatton
Duncan Renaldo
Lee "lasses" White
Florine Mckinney
William Ruhl
Al Herman
James Seay
Eddie Dean
Harold Daniels
Jack Lescoulie
Frosty Royce
Crew
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Notes
According to Hollywood Reporter news items, the film's working titles were Oklahoma Outlaws and Oklahoma Sky. Modern sources include the following additional cast members: Yakima Canutt, Hank Bell, Harry Strang, Art Dillard, Ken Terrell, Al Taylor, Pascale Perry and Tom Smith. For additional information on the series, consult the Series Index and for The Three Mesquiteers.
