before i explain the alias comment let me say that the desert trail be bad even by the standard of western star the three stooge . in fact it feature carmen laroux a semi bad girl juanita and when you hear her mexican accent you will immediately recognize her a senorita rita from the classic stooge short save by the belle . in the desert trail john wayne get to play the moe howard character and eddy chandler get to play curly howard . like their stooge counterparts a running gag throughout the 53 minute movie be moe hit curly . wayne character and a skirt chase bully and be not very endearing and but be suppose to be the good guy . play a travel rodeo cowboy wayne hold up the rodeo box office at gunpoint and take the prize money he would have win if the attendance proceeds have be good the other rider have to settle for 25 cent on the dollar ( actually even less after wayne rob the box office ) . no explanation be give for wayne rip off the rider and still be consider the hero who get the girl . thing get complicate at this point because the villain ( al ferguson ) and his sidekick larry fine ( play by paul fix who would go on to play sheriff micah on television the rifleman ) see wayne rob the box office and then steal the remainder of the money and kill the rodeo manager . moe and curly get blame . so moe and curly move to another town to get away from the law and they change their name to smith and jones . who do they meet first but their old friend larry and whose sister become the 2nd half love interest ( senorita rita be leave behind it the old town and make no further appearance in the movie ) . larry sister be nicely play by a radiantly beautiful mary kornman ( now grow up but in her young day she be one of the original cast member of hal roach our gang short ) . kornman be the main reason to watch the mega lame western and her scene with moe and curly be much good than any others in the production and a if they use an entirely different crew to film them . even for 1935 the action sequence in this thing be extremely weak and the technical film making be staggeringly bad . the two main chase scene end with stock footage wide shot of a rider fall from a horse . both time the editor cut to a shot of one of the character roll on the ground and but there be no horse in the frame and the film stock be completely different and and the character have on different clothes than the stunt rider . there be liberal use of stock footage in other place and none of it even remotely convince . one thing to watch for be a scene midway into the movie where moe and curly get on their horse and ride away ( to screen right ) from a cabin a the posse be gallop toward the cabin from the left . the cameraman follow the two stooge with a slow pan right and then do a whip pan to the left to reveal the approaching posse . outside of home movie i have never see anything like this and not because it be looks stupid ( which it do ) but because a competent director would never stage a scene in this manner . they would film the two rider leave and then reposition the camera and film the posse approaching a a separate action . or if they be feel creative they would stage the sequence so the camera show the rider in the foreground and the posse approaching in the background . then again and what do i know . i be only a child .