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Riders of Death Valley
Directed by Ford Beebe
Ray Taylor
Produced by Henry MacRae
Written by Basil Dickey
Oliver Drake
Sherman L. Lowe
Jack O'Donnell
George H. Plympton
Starring Dick Foran
Leo Carrillo
Buck Jones
Charles Bickford
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Noah Beery, Jr.
Music by Charles Previn
Cinematography Jerome Ash
William A. Sickner
Editing by Saul A. Goodkind (supervisor)
Joseph Gluck
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) 1 July 1941
Running time 15 chapters (283 min)
Country United States
Language English

Riders of Death Valley (1941) is a Universal movie serial. It was a high budget serial with an all-star cast led by Dick Foran and Buck Jones. Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor directed.

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
  • James Blaine 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[]

Rider's of Death Valley was Universal's "all-star, high budget western cliffhanger."[1] It provided a lot of stock footage for later serials.[2]

Stunts[]

  • Jack Casey
  • Leroy Johnson
  • Gil Perkins
  • Ken Terrell doubling George J. Lewis
  • Duke York

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:[3]

See also[]

References[]

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

External links[]

Preceded by
Sky Raiders (1941)
Universal Serial
Riders of Death Valley (1941)
Succeeded by
Sea Raiders (1941)


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