Hit the Saddle

Hit the Saddle

Infobox Film
name = Hit the Saddle


image_size =
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director = Mack V. Wright
George Blair "(assistant)"
producer = Nat Levine
Sol C. Siegel "(asscoiate)"
writer = Oliver Drake
Maurice Geraghty
William Colt MacDonald "(novel)"
narrator =
starring = Bob Livingston
Ray "Crash" Corrigan
Max Terhune
Rita Hayworth
J. P. McGowan
music = Alberto Colombo
cinematography = Jack A. Marta
editing = Murray Seldeen "(supervising)"
Tony Martinelli
distributor = Republic Pictures
released = 3 March 1937
runtime = 57 min
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
preceded_by = "Riders of the Whistling Skull" (1937)
followed_by = "Gunsmoke Ranch" (1937)
website =
amg_id = 1:22633
imdb_id = 0029004

"Hit the Saddle" is a 1937 "Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie starring Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, and Rita Hayworth, before she became famous. The film was directed by Mack V. Wright.

Plot

Cattle rancher Rance McGowan intends to capture a herd of wild horses but they are protected US government. He trains and disguises his own horse, Volcano, to lead them in stampedes across other ranches which will lead to the government removing its protection. In the process, however, the local Sheriff is killed by Volcano and the Sheriff's friends, The Three Mesquiteers, become involved. Meanwhile, Stony Brooke wants to marry saloon singer Rita but the other Mesquiteers do not trust her.

Cast

*Bob Livingston as Stony Brooke, Mesquiteer
*Ray Corrigan as Tucson Smith, Mesquiteer
*Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin, Mesquiteer
*Rita Hayworth as Rita, a saloon singer (Hayworth was billed under her real name as Rita Cansino; in the same year she moved to Columbia Pictures and acquired her more famous stage name)
*J. P. McGowan as Rance McGowan, villainous rancher
*Ed Cassidy as Sheriff Miller, murdered by McGowan
*Sammy McKim as Tim Miller, the Sheriff's son
*Yakima Canutt as Buck, one of McGowan's henchmen
*Harry Tenbrook as Joe Harvey, one of McGowan's henchmen
*Robert Smith as Hank, one of McGowan's henchmen
*Eddie Boland as Pete

Production

External links

*imdb title|id=0029004|title=Hit the Saddle
* [http://www.b-westerns.com/trio3m3b.htm The Livingston-Corrigan-Terhune period of Three Mesquiteers films at B-Westerns]


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