What a waste of my time!!!

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

One of 51 Republic B westerns in the late '30s and early '40s under the banner of The Three Mesquiteers: a combination of mesquite and musketeer. The identity of the actors varied. John Wayne was in only 8 of them, this being the last one before he graduated to A pictures. It's an early example of the directing of B westerns by George Sherman, who would eventually move to Columbia, then to Universal, always directing almost exclusively B westerns. Here, Wayne is Stony, Ray Corrigan is Tucson, and Ray Hutton is Rusty......Just after the Civil War, Major Braddock decided to move from the decimated South to the Wild West. He landed in The New Hope Valley, as he called it, and started a community. Now, they are celebrating their 50th anniversary, which would make it about 1915. But, aside from one bulldozer, it seems it should be more like their 25th anniversary, as there is no other hint of motor vehicles nor electricity use.......As part of their celebration, they have a curious reenactment of the Pony Express riders, featuring the 3Ms as the riders(who were way overweight compared to the real scrawny riders!) The 3Ms hand the mail pouch off to each other out in the boonies, where no one could see them, then are chased into town by a trio of 'Indians'. Of course, the real riders went extinct 55 years before, after their 18 month existence.......The screen play, at least, is a bit different from that of the usual B western of this era. The central problem is that the government wants to build a dam to provide more water and electricity for the neighboring growing city of Metropole, and the dam will flood the area of New Hope Valley, meaning that everyone will be dispossessed, with no evident suitable nearby area to resettle. Naturally, the residents are hopping mad that the government could do this to them. They try, to no avail, to get the court to declare the project too costly in disrupted lives. Therefore, some harass the surveyors and other workmen. At one point, there's a serious confrontation, when the supply wagons try to roll in. The workmen roll a flaming oil tanker wagon down to crash into the barricade erected by the settlers. Later, when the dam floodgates are being opened to flood the valley, the settlers again attack the dam crew, and close the floodgates, after learning that their promised new homes are still located in a waterless rocky desert, with the promised water pipe not even started. Then, the film comes to an abrupt ending, Supposedly, a tunnel has been dug, in record time, through the intervening mountain, to allow the pipeline to reach the New New Hope Valley....... Not too bad of a story. See it at YouTube......Forgot to mention that this was the first film role of Jennifer Jones. She played Celia: daughter of Major Braddock, who founded the New Hope settlement. Not much of a role compared to her next film.

FRONTIER HORIZON is the last in a series of B-movie westerns teaming John Wayne with stuntman Ray Corrigan and Raymond Hatton as a trio of crime-fighters in the Old West. This time around, they're called in to help prevent land owners being harassed by a crooked real estate boss and his men, but the whole thing feels entirely cheap and unfocused. Long segments of the running time stretch out without much going on and the heroes have little to do except occasionally jump into action. Watch out for Hollywood starlet Jennifer Jones in her screen debut.

Three Mesquiteers film starring John Wayne, Ray 'Crash' Corrigan, and Raymond Hatton. This time around the trio are helping ranchers fight crooked land grabbers. This was Wayne's final entry in this series of B westerns before moving on to bigger and better things. It's also the film debut of Jennifer Jones, billed under her pre-Selznick name of Phylis Isley. She does a fine job. Corrigan and Hatton are fun. Nice support from Eddy Waller. LeRoy Mason plays the heavy for the second consecutive Mesquiteers film. This is a pretty standard B western with a wonky timeline (supposed to be the 1910s but it's more like the 1870s). There's little to recommend about it outside of its appeal to Wayne (and maybe Jennifer Jones) completists.

New Hope Valley is celebrating its 50th anniversary, but the celebration is short lived by the arrival of assemblyman Proctor and developer Gilbert, who announce that New Hope Valley is being condemned so that the land can be used for the site of a new dam which will give water to nearby developing communities. This riles the residents who attack the developers while they are on construction. Gilbert, who is stopping at no lengths to see the project completed, is convinced that the residents will listen to Stony, Tucson, and Rusty, so he tells them of their plan of moving to a new piece of land where they will have irrigation and the chance to start anew on their farms. However the Three Mesquiteers learn that this was just a dupe by Gilbert & Proctor since they have no plans to carry water to that new valley, and the three go to confront Gilbert and his men before they flood New Hope Valley. Another well done entry in the 3 Mesquiteers series despite the fact that the villainous element isn't seen until 30 minutes into the picture and there is very little in the ways of action until the very end. Like their next film Wyoming Outlaw, this is another entry in the series dealing with issues of the times primarily the leaving of the town versus the use of progress to help nearby communities. Well done with an excellent finale at the dam. Rating, based on B westerns, 7.