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The Arizona Raiders (1936)

• Director
  • James P. Hogan
• Writers
  • Zane Grey(novel "Raiders of Spanish Peaks")
  • Robert Yost(screenplay)
  • John W. Krafft(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Buster Crabbe
  • Raymond Hatton
  • Marsha Hunt

  Another above-average entry in Paramount's Zane Grey series, Arizona Raiders was adapted from Grey's Riders of Spanish Peaks. Buster Crabbe, here billed under his given name of Larry, stars as outlaw Laramie Nelson, who at the beginning of the picture manages to escape a "necktie party." A sense of obligation which Laramie himself cannot explain leads him to rescue another miscreant, Tracks Williams (Raymond Hatton), from a similar demise. The two desert rats team up with a third, handsome young Lone Alonzo Mulhall (Johnny Downs), whereupon the threesome engage in numerous adventures, many of them humorous in nature. Marsha Hunt, as much of a "regular" in the Zane Grey series as Crabbe and Hatton, plays the self-reliant ingenue.