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Riders Of The Whistling Skull (1937)
Topic Started: Apr 6 2008, 06:12 AM (299 Views)
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A beautiful woman enlists the aid of the Three Mesquiteers (Stony, Lullaby, and Tucson) to help her find her missing archeologist father, but there's murder afoot. The map to a fabled lost city has been divided up amongst the scientific safari, who are then murdered one by one for their slice of the reference guide. Eventually, our boys (and their girl) find themselves trapped in the desert sans water but with evil prairie pirates on their trail.

Oh, yeah, and there's a giant skull carved out of the mountain; it whistles as the wind blows through it.

Million dollar dialog...

Homely female archeologist: "Do you enjoy archeology?"
Lullaby: "I dunno; I never et it. Too hard to peel."

This was Republic's fourth Mesquiteers picture, and I've been watching 'em in order and this is the first one that's as entertaining as I'd recalled the series as being. A lot of comedy, a lot of good-natured rivalry between Tucson (Crash Corrigan) and Stony (Bob Livingston), and the always-fine Republic stunts and action. It's on Vol. 6 of the Mesquiteers double-features from VCI (there are 11 volumes so far).
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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By the way, one thing I just remembered... Y'know how in these movies, they sometimes have a Witch Doctor or a Shaman or whatever from the "savage tribe", and the guy does a War Dance or a Rain Dance or a Sacrificial Dance?

Well, the guy in this movie is the best dancer this side of Fred Astaire. He's terrific.

Just wanted to mention that.
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Riders of the Whistling Skull is my all time favorite B western. And Stony, Tucson and Lullaby in Heart of the Rockies is my next favorite.
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