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Riders of Death Valley

07/01/1941

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4hrs 43min

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Action

,Western

A MILLION-DOLLAR SUPER SERIAL! With a thousand teeming thrills in 15 exciting chapters!

STORY

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Dick Foran
  • Leo Carrillo
  • Buck Jones
  • Charles Bickford
  • Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

    Directors

  • Ford Beebe
  • Ray Taylor
  • Jacques Jaccard

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Universal Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Dick Foran

Jim Benton

Leo Carrillo

Pancho Lopez

Buck Jones

Tombstone

Charles Bickford

Wolf Reade

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Borax Bill

Lon Chaney Jr.

Henchman Butch

Noah Beery Jr.

Smokey

Jean Brooks

Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)

James Blaine

Joseph Kirby

Monte Blue

Rance Davis

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