Riders of Death Valley

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Riders of Death Valley
Directed byFord Beebe
Ray Taylor
Written byBasil Dickey
Oliver Drake
Sherman L. Lowe
Jack O'Donnell
George H. Plympton
Produced byHenry MacRae
StarringDick Foran
Leo Carrillo
Buck Jones
Charles Bickford
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Noah Beery, Jr.
Cinematography
Edited by (supervisor)


Alvin Todd
Music byCharles Previn
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • July 1, 1941 (1941-07-01)
Running time
15 chapters (283 minutes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Riders of Death Valley is a 1941 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures. It was a high budget serial with an all-star cast led by Dick Foran and Buck Jones. Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor directed. It also features Lon Chaney Jr. in a supporting role as a villainous henchman[1] as well as Noah Beery Jr., Charles Bickford, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Monte Blue and Glenn Strange.

Plot[]

Cast[]

  • Dick Foran as Jim Benton, vigilante hero
  • Leo Carrillo as Pancho Lopez
  • Buck Jones as Tombstone
  • Charles Bickford as Wolf Reade, villain hired by Kirby and Davis
  • Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Borax Bill
  • Lon Chaney, Jr. as Butch, one of Reade's henchmen
  • Noah Beery, Jr. as Smokey
  • Jean Brooks as Mary Morgan
  • as Joseph Kirby, one of the mastermind villains
  • Monte Blue as Rance Davis, the other mastermind villain
  • Glenn Strange as Tex, a Benton Rider
  • Roy Barcroft as Dirk, one of Reade's henchmen
  • Jack Rockwell as Trigger, one of Reade's henchmen
  • Ethan Laidlaw as Rusty, one of Reade's henchmen
  • Richard Alexander as Pete Grump, one of Reade's henchmen

Production[]

Riders of Death Valley was Universal's "all-star, high-budget western cliffhanger."[2] It provided a lot of stock footage for later serials.[3]

Stunts[]

Chapter titles[]

  1. Death Marks the Trail
  2. The Menacing Herd
  3. The Plunge of Peril
  4. Flaming Fury
  5. The Avalanche of Doom
  6. Blood and Gold
  7. Death Rides the Storm
  8. Descending Doom
  9. Death Holds the Reins
  10. Devouring Flames
  11. The Fatal Blast
  12. Thundering Doom
  13. Bridge of Disaster
  14. A Fight to the Death
  15. The Harvest of Hate

Source:[4]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 229–230. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
  2. ^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "14. The Villains "All Bad, All Mad"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.
  3. ^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.
  4. ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 229–230. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

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