Name: Overland Stage Raiders
Genre: Western
Released: 1938-09-20
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Louise Brooks, Anthony Marsh

Overland Stage Raiders

Never a dull moment when THE THREE MESQUITEERS add Thrills and Chills to the Drama of the West!

After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.

Western

DirectorGeorge Sherman

WritersBernard McConville, Luci Ward, William Colt MacDonald, Edmond Kelso

StatusReleased

LanguageEnglish

Release DateSeptember 20, 1938

Runtime55m

The Three Mesquiteers Collection

Includes: The Three Mesquiteers, Ghost Town Gold, Roarin' Lead, The Riders of the Whistling Skull, Hit the Saddle, Gunsmoke Ranch, Come on, Cowboys, Range Defenders, Heart of the Rockies, The Trigger Trio, Wild Horse Rodeo, The Purple Vigilantes, Call The Mesquiteers, Outlaws of Sonora, Riders of the Black Hills, Heroes of the Hills, Pals of the Saddle, Overland Stage Raiders, Santa Fe Stampede, Red River Range, The Night Riders, Three Texas Steers, Wyoming Outlaw, New Frontier, The Kansas Terrors, Cowboys from Texas, Pioneers of the West, Covered Wagon Days, Rocky Mountain Rangers, Oklahoma Renegades, Under Texas Skies, The Trail Blazers, Heroes of the Saddle, Lone Star Raiders, Prairie Pioneers, Pals of the Pecos, Saddlemates, Gangs of Sonora, Outlaws of Cherokee Trail, Gauchos of El Dorado, West of Cimarron, Code of the Outlaw, Raiders of the Range, Westward Ho, The Phantom Plainsmen, Shadows on the Sage, Valley of Hunted Men, Thundering Trails, The Blocked Trail, Santa Fe Scouts, Riders of the Rio Grande

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@Geronimo1967

June 20, 20226/10

There is something quite surreal about the start to this film.... The opening sequence features a gang of outlaws chasing a gold shipment, but it's being carried on a bus - an ordinary coach with passengers merrily trundling down the highway as the baddies give pursuit on horseback! At this point a charismatic and handsome John Wayne and the "Mesquiteers" hit on an idea to buy an aeroplane to fly said bullion in safety in future. Needless to say, the owner of the shipping company is none to pleased at the progress and so brings in some muscle to put the kibosh on their cunning plan. Silent film star Louise Brooks provides the glamour, and all told it's quite a jolly little adventure film with nothing much of note in the plot or the script aside from the slightly odd cross-over aspect that signalled the permanent decline of this genre as an appreciably relevant way of life for many who would still have actively recalled the ways of the old west.