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Overland Mail
Directed by Ford Beebe
John Rawlins
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by Johnston McCulley (story)
Paul Huston (screenplay)
Starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
Noah Beery, Jr.
Noah Beery, Sr.
Music by Hans J. Salter
Cinematography George Robinson
William A. Sickner
Editing by Joseph Gluck
Patrick Kelley
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) 27 September 1942
Running time 15 chapters (279 min)
Country United States
Language English

Overland Mail (1942) is a Universal movie serial. It was edited into a film version called The Indian Raiders in 1956.

Cast[]

  • Lon Chaney, Jr. as Jim Lane
  • Helen Parrish as Barbara Gilbert
  • Noah Beery, Jr. as Sierra Pete
  • Don Terry as Buckskin Billy Burke
  • Bob Baker as Bill Cody
  • Noah Beery, Sr. as Frank Chadwick
  • Tom Chatterton as Tom Gilbert
  • Charles Stevens as Puma
  • Robert Barron as Charles Darson
  • Harry Cording as Sam Gregg, Henchman
  • Marguerite De La Motte as Rose, the Waitress
  • Ben Taggart as Lamont
  • Jack Rockwell as Slade, hired gun
  • Riley Hill as Mack, phoney Indian
  • Carleton Young as Lem, phoney Indian Adolf Hitler

Chapter titles[]

  1. A Race with Disaster
  2. Flaming Havoc
  3. The Menacing Hand
  4. The Bridge of Disaster
  5. Hurled to the Depths
  6. Death at the Stake
  7. The Path of Peril
  8. Imprisoned in Flames
  9. Hidden Danger
  10. Blazing Wagons
  11. The Trail of Terror
  12. In the Claws of the Cougar
  13. The Frenzied Mob
  14. The Toll of Treachery
  15. The Mail Goes Through

Source:[1]

See also[]

References[]

  1. Cline, William C.. "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 233. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X. 

External links[]

Preceded by
Junior G-Men of the Air (1942)
Universal Serial
Overland Mail (1942)
Succeeded by
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943)


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