Lucky (Arthur Jarrett) has inherited half of the cattle ranch he and
his friends Stormy (Lee Powell) and Fuzzy (Al St.John) are working on, but
there are two problems with the place: 1) it is plagued by rustlers, and
2) the other half of the ranch now belongs to Doris (Dorothy Fay), who
doesn't trust Lucky one bit, thinks he's in cahoots with the rustlers,
wants to turn the cattle ranch into a dude ranch, and eventually becomes
good friends with Kent (Ted Adams), the local banker who has written
land-grabber all over his face. Of course, it's really Kent who's behind
all the rustling, and he gets able support from Pete (Ernie Adams), one of
the farmhands at Lucky's place. Eventually, Kent and Pete even cook up
some evidence that ties Lucky to the rustlers, but that evidence
eventually backfires, and Lucky, Stormy and Fuzzy manage to bring the
actual rustlers including Kent and Pete to justice - and of couirse, in
the end, Lucky gets the girl ... Doris that is. Nina Guilbert plays
Doris's aunt who gets mighty friendly with Fuzzy, to friendly for his
taste ... This attempt to establish a cowboy trio to cash in on
the success of the Three
Mesquiteers is nothing but a predictable and a tad boring
routine B-Western that has nothing to distinguish itself from similar
product of its day, and even Al St.John, giving an early version of his Fuzzy-character
that eventually became one of the most beloved Western sidekicks, gives
one of his more unremarkable performances. This is all not to say that Trigger
Pals is a particularly bad film, it's just not really memorable and
pretty unremarkable - and the trio series that was to follow this film was
never picked up.
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