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[]
- Death Marks the Trail
- The Menacing Herd
- The Plunge of Peril
- Flaming Fury
- The Avalanche of Doom
- Blood and Gold
- Death Rides the Storm
- Descending Doom
- Death Holds the Reins
- Devouring Flames
- The Fatal Blast
- Thundering Doom
- Bridge of Disaster
- A Fight to the Death
- The Harvest of Hate
Source:[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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) |
This 1940s Western film-related article is a stub. You can help the Universal Pictures wiki by expanding it. |
This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Riders of Death Valley. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Universal Monsters Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. |