If you've seen a few Three Mesquiteer films, there's a good chance you noticed that the line-up of the trio changed all the time. For a short while, even John Wayne played one of these western do-gooders. In this installment, Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune star as the traveling lawmen/social workers!
The story begins with an odd message...that the best way to combat lawlessness is to organize a citizens' vigilante committee! However, although they are successful, afterwards an unknown baddie organizes his own vigilante group ('The Purple Vigilantes') and they begin the terror all over again!
Now here is where things get a bit dumb. Soon folks in the town accuse the original organizer of the first vigilante group of leading the new silly-dressed group. With no real evidence at all as well as the baddies preventing the Mesquiteers from testifying, the man is convicted and sentenced to die! Can the Mesquiteers figure out who is really behind all this not-niceness??
This is a typical and enjoyable Mesquiteer film in many ways. But the Purple Vigilantes are a sight to see! They wear Klan-like robes and look a lot like baddies from a movie serial (such as "The Undersea Kingdom" or "The Phantom Empire")....and they look completely ridiculous. What is cool is the voice of their leader (Billy Bletcher), as the man also voiced many cartoon character such as The Big Bad Wolf and Peg-Leg Pete. Overall, a silly looking but enjoyable film...typical of the Mesquiteers and other B-westerns of the era.