Riders of Death Valley
movie
A MILLION-DOLLAR SUPER SERIAL! With a thousand teeming thrills in 15 exciting chapters!
Released July 01, 1941
Overview
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
Dick Foran
as
Jim Benton
Leo Carrillo
as
Pancho Lopez
Buck Jones
as
Tombstone
Charles Bickford
as
Wolf Reade
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
as
Borax Bill
Lon Chaney Jr.
as
Henchman Butch
Noah Beery Jr.
as
Smokey
Jean Brooks
as
Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)
James Blaine
as
Joseph Kirby
Monte Blue
as
Rance Davis
Glenn Strange
as
Tex, a Benton Rider
Roy Barcroft
as
Henchman Dirk
Crew
Ray Taylor
as
Director
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Jack O'Donnell
as
Screenplay
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Leroy Johnson
as
Stunts
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George H. Plympton
as
Screenplay
Duke York
as
Stunts
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Charles Previn
as
Music Director
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Alvin Todd
as
Editor
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John P. Fulton
as
Visual Effects
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Basil Dickey
as
Screenplay
Ken Terrell
as
Stunts
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Joseph Gluck
as
Editor
Ford Beebe
as
Director