Frontier Horizon (New Frontier) (1939)

New Frontier

“Maybe any one of the other 50 entries in the Three Mesquiteers franchise are actually good, enjoyable B-movie westerns that manage to thrill within their limited scope, but New Frontier is not one of them. Even at barely under an hour it feels padded and stretched thin. There’s no nuance or texture to the story, characters, and complicating factors so everything goes in a perfectly straight line from beat to beat.   The most enjoyable thing about New Frontier, or Frontier Horizon as it’s also known but where that name came from is anyone’s guess, is the flagrant disregard for history on display. The Three Mesquiteers work as Pony Express riders in 1914 despite the Pony Express having stopped around 1860 or so. Then there are the modern dress and makeup styles on display, the fact” read more