Screenplay: William Colt MacDonald
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by William Colt MacDonald. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Wyoming Outlaw
1939 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast John Wayne · Ray Corrigan · Raymond Hatton · Don 'Red' Barry
Plot With himself and his father out of work due to Balsinger who controls the jobs, Will Parker is stealing cattle to feed his family. The Mesquiteers try to help him...
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Man of Action
1933 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Tim McCoy · Caryl Lincoln · Julian Rivero · Wheeler Oakman
Plot When the bank is robbed, the Sheriff shoots the robber and recovers the money bag only to find it empty. Ranger Tim Barlow arrives and over objections of the Sheriff...
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Ghost-Town Gold
1936 · Movie · 55 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Kane
Cast Robert Livingston · Ray Corrigan · Max Terhune · Kay Hughes
Plot The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayor who ordered them to leave town.
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Red River Range
1938 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast John Wayne · Ray Corrigan · Max Terhune · Polly Moran
Plot Very organized cattle rustlers are operating with portable slaughterhouses and refrigerator vans. The governor asks the Three Mesquiteers to go undercover to investigate.
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New Frontier
1939 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast John Wayne · Ray Corrigan · Raymond Hatton · Jennifer Jones
Plot The state government plans to build a flood-control dam and condemns the property of the local farmers and ranchers, including The Three Mesquiteers. The state intends to compensate the land-owners...
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Pals of the Saddle
1938 · Movie · 55 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast John Wayne · Ray Corrigan · Max Terhune · Doreen McKay
Plot Returning a lost item to Ann, Stony arrives just two men shoot each other. Ann is a Government Agent and she gets Stony to replace her now dead partner. An...
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Santa Fe Stampede
1938 · Movie · 55 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast John Wayne · Ray Corrigan · Max Terhune · June Martel
Plot The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signatures urging the governor to investigate but a friend with the petition is murdered. Stony...
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Under Texas Skies
1940 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Robert Livingston · Bob Steele · Rufe Davis · Lois Ranson
Plot Stony Brooke returns to his home town only the learn that his father, Sheriff Brooke, has been murdered and that his boyhood friend, Tucson Smith has been convicted and is...
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Three Texas Steers
1939 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast John Wayne · Ray Corrigan · Max Terhune · Carole Landis
Plot Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the...
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The Three Mesquiteers (TV Series)
1936 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Ray Taylor · Joseph Kane · Sam Newfield · Mack V. Wright
Cast Robert Livingston · John Wayne · Ralph Byrd · Tom Tyler
Plot The Three Mesquiteers is the umbrella title for a series of 51 B-Western movies released between 1936 and 1943. The name was a play on The Three Musketeers, and each...
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The Night Riders
1939 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast John Wayne · Ray Corrigan · Max Terhune · Doreen McKay
Plot Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this...
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Overland Stage Raiders
1938 · Movie · 55 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast John Wayne · Ray Corrigan · Max Terhune · Louise Brooks
Plot 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...
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