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12/12 The Three Musketeers, The Value of Comrades (1933)
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Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shasta...
American aviator Tom Wayne (John Wayne)and his co-pilot, Stubbs (Noah Beery Jr.)are flying over an African desert when they see trouble below...Arab bandits are attacking three troopers of the French Foreign Legion. Using the machine gun mounted on his airplane, Wayne quickly stops the Arab attack. The rescued Legionaires---Clancy (Jack Mulhall), Renard (Raymond Hatton) and Dutch Schmidt (Ralph Bushman)introduce themselves as "The Three Musketeers." They inform Wayne that the attackers were followers of "The Devil's Circle," a fanatic cult out to destroy the Foreign Legion by gun-running and insurrection. The cult's leader is El Shaitan, a masked man whose real identity is known to none. Wayne is drawn into the fight through the encouragement of his new friends, and a call for help from an old friend, Armand Corday (Lon Chaney Jr.), who has been duped into The Devil's Circle, but is trying to break away. But Armand, is killed by an assassin before he can tell what he knows about the cult. Stubbs is also killed. Helped by the Musketeers and Armand's sister, Elaine (Ruth Hall)), Wayne sets out to smash the cult.
Categories action, adventure, mystery, serial
Trivia
Retitled, re-edited and re-released in 1946 as a feature, Desert Command.
Directed by
Colbert Clark
Armand Schaefer
Writing credits
Alexandre Dumas père (story source)
Norman S. Hall story and screenplay (as Norman Hall) and
Colbert Clark story and screenplay and
Barney A. Sarecky story and screenplay (as Barney Sarecky) and
Bennett Cohen screenplay (as Ben Cohen) and
Wyndham Gittens story and screenplay
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
Jack Mulhall ... Clancy
Raymond Hatton ... Renard
Ralph Bushman ... Dutch Schmidt (as Francis X. Bushman Jr.)
John Wayne ... Lt. Tom Wayne
Ruth Hall ... Elaine Corday
Lon Chaney Jr. ... Lt. Armand Corday [Chs. 1, 10] (as Creighton Chaney)
Hooper Atchley ... El Kadur
Gordon De Main ... Colonel Duval
Robert Frazer ... Major Booth, USA
Noah Beery Jr. ... Noah Stubbs [Chs. 1-2, 10]
Al Ferguson ... Ali
Edward Peil Sr. ... Leon Ratkin (as Edward Piel)
William Desmond ... Captain Boncour
George Magrill ... El Maghreb
Robert Warwick ... Col. Brent, USA [Ch. 1]
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Yakima Canutt ... El Shaitan-Masked / Legion Officer [Ch. 8] (uncredited)
Emile Chautard ... General Pelletier [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
Ken Cooper ... Arab (uncredited)
Frank Ellis ... Legionnaire (uncredited)
Rodney Hildebrand ... Colonel Demoyne [Chs. 11-12] (uncredited)
Tracy Layne ... Legionnaire [Chs. 2, 4, 6-10, 12] (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas ... El Shaitan (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard ... Legionnaire (uncredited)
Merrill McCormick ... Ben Yosif [Chs. 5, 7] (uncredited)
Charles Middleton ... El Shaitan-Speaking (uncredited)
Chapter Titles
1. The Fiery Circle
2. One For All, All For One
3. The Master Spy
4. Pirates of the Desert
5. Rebel Rifles
6. Death's Marathon
7. Naked Steel
8. The Master Strikes
9. The Fatal Cave
10.Trapped!
11.The Measure of a Man
12.The Value of Comrades
American aviator Tom Wayne (John Wayne)and his co-pilot, Stubbs (Noah Beery Jr.)are flying over an African desert when they see trouble below...Arab bandits are attacking three troopers of the French Foreign Legion. Using the machine gun mounted on his airplane, Wayne quickly stops the Arab attack. The rescued Legionaires---Clancy (Jack Mulhall), Renard (Raymond Hatton) and Dutch Schmidt (Ralph Bushman)introduce themselves as "The Three Musketeers." They inform Wayne that the attackers were followers of "The Devil's Circle," a fanatic cult out to destroy the Foreign Legion by gun-running and insurrection. The cult's leader is El Shaitan, a masked man whose real identity is known to none. Wayne is drawn into the fight through the encouragement of his new friends, and a call for help from an old friend, Armand Corday (Lon Chaney Jr.), who has been duped into The Devil's Circle, but is trying to break away. But Armand, is killed by an assassin before he can tell what he knows about the cult. Stubbs is also killed. Helped by the Musketeers and Armand's sister, Elaine (Ruth Hall)), Wayne sets out to smash the cult.
Categories action, adventure, mystery, serial
Trivia
Retitled, re-edited and re-released in 1946 as a feature, Desert Command.
Directed by
Colbert Clark
Armand Schaefer
Writing credits
Alexandre Dumas père (story source)
Norman S. Hall story and screenplay (as Norman Hall) and
Colbert Clark story and screenplay and
Barney A. Sarecky story and screenplay (as Barney Sarecky) and
Bennett Cohen screenplay (as Ben Cohen) and
Wyndham Gittens story and screenplay
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
Jack Mulhall ... Clancy
Raymond Hatton ... Renard
Ralph Bushman ... Dutch Schmidt (as Francis X. Bushman Jr.)
John Wayne ... Lt. Tom Wayne
Ruth Hall ... Elaine Corday
Lon Chaney Jr. ... Lt. Armand Corday [Chs. 1, 10] (as Creighton Chaney)
Hooper Atchley ... El Kadur
Gordon De Main ... Colonel Duval
Robert Frazer ... Major Booth, USA
Noah Beery Jr. ... Noah Stubbs [Chs. 1-2, 10]
Al Ferguson ... Ali
Edward Peil Sr. ... Leon Ratkin (as Edward Piel)
William Desmond ... Captain Boncour
George Magrill ... El Maghreb
Robert Warwick ... Col. Brent, USA [Ch. 1]
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Yakima Canutt ... El Shaitan-Masked / Legion Officer [Ch. 8] (uncredited)
Emile Chautard ... General Pelletier [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
Ken Cooper ... Arab (uncredited)
Frank Ellis ... Legionnaire (uncredited)
Rodney Hildebrand ... Colonel Demoyne [Chs. 11-12] (uncredited)
Tracy Layne ... Legionnaire [Chs. 2, 4, 6-10, 12] (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas ... El Shaitan (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard ... Legionnaire (uncredited)
Merrill McCormick ... Ben Yosif [Chs. 5, 7] (uncredited)
Charles Middleton ... El Shaitan-Speaking (uncredited)
Chapter Titles
1. The Fiery Circle
2. One For All, All For One
3. The Master Spy
4. Pirates of the Desert
5. Rebel Rifles
6. Death's Marathon
7. Naked Steel
8. The Master Strikes
9. The Fatal Cave
10.Trapped!
11.The Measure of a Man
12.The Value of Comrades