Robert Blair Movies
- 1965
Featuring plenty of rock & roll, such artists as Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Righteous Brothers and the Rip Chords, this fun-filled bit of fluff tells the story of a trio of teens who try to scare up summer cash by running a dance pavilion at a lakeside resort. Raquel Welch made her acting and singing debut in this film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Stacy, William Wellman, Jr., (more)
- 1962
In this campy action-adventure, a crazy gang of hot-rodding teens are racing about the Mojave when they encounter an ex-con who has come to the desert to bring back the nearly quarter of a million dollars in loot that he has hidden there. The kids learn about his search and in trying to get him to talk, accidentally kill him. Desperate to own the goods, they then abduct the dead con's wife and try to persuade her to tell them where he stashed the money. Unbeknownst to them, their ranks have been infiltrated by an insurance investigator who sees that justice is finally done. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1941
The Range Busters are at it again in Monogram's Underground Rustlers. Set in California gold country during the financial panic of 1869, the story concerns a gang of clever gold thieves who utilize a subterranean tunnel to abscond with their ill-gotten gains. Enter our three heroes, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, John "Dusty" King and Max "Alibi" Terhune. After much bantering byplay and a few songs courtesy of Mr. King, the Range Busters begin busting heads for a change, the better to bring the villains to heel. Surprisingly, Underground Rustlers is virtually bereft of action, promising much but delivering little. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Max "Alibi" Terhune, (more)
- 1940
An above-average entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" series, The Trail Blazers is something as unusual as a Christmas western that includes comic sidekick Rufe Davis' rendition of "Jingle Bells". The Mesqueteers -- who in addition to Davis' Lullaby Joslin also numbered Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke and Bob Steele as "Tucson" Smith -- come to the aid of Jim Chapman (Carroll Nye), an engineer assigned to build a telegraph for the army. But a group of powerful local businessmen, headed by crooked newspaper publisher Jeff Bradley (Weldon Heyburn), do their utmost to sabotage the project. Yet despite the inevitable setbacks, the Mesqueteers, aided by Army Major Kelton (Tom Chatterton) and his daughter Marcia (Pauline Moore), make sure that the life-saving telegraph is erected on time. In an effort to duplicate the success of the "Three Mesqueteers" films, small-scale Monogram begun their own trio series in 1943, confusingly entitled "The Trail Blazers," a moniker the studio most likely "stole" from this western. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, (more)
- 1940
This "Three Mesquiteers" western entry stars Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke, Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin and Duncan Renaldo as Rico Rinaldo. Livingston also does double duty as the villain of the piece, a desperado known as The Laredo Kid. Working undercover for the Texas Rangers, Stony Brooke poses as the recently deceased Laredo Kid to get the goods on the latter's gang. The film's action highlight is a leap from a runaway stagecoach over a perilous cliff and into a raging stream-a bit of derring-do that popped up as stock footage in many a future Republic western. Handling the leading-lady duties is Rosella Towne, formerly with Warner Bros. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, (more)
