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Riders of Death Valley
1941, Jul 01
4h 43m
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.
Directed by
Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Lon Chaney Jr.
Henchman Butch
Noah Beery Jr.
Smokey
Glenn Strange
Tex, a Benton Rider
Charles Bickford
Wolf Reade
Jean Brooks
Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Borax Bill
Richard Travis
Joe Miller
Rod Cameron
Rider
Edmund Cobb
Salty
Dick Foran
Jim Benton
Buck Jones
Tombstone
Ernie Adams
Cactus Pete, Prospector [Ch.14]
Roy Barcroft
Henchman Dirk
Duke York
Monte Blue
Rance Davis
Gil Perkins
Fighter
Leo Carrillo
Pancho Lopez
Bud Osborne
Stagecoach Driver
Jack Perrin
Stage Guard
William Hall
Dan Gordon [Chs. 1, 8-10]
Cliff Lyons
Ethan Laidlaw
Henchman Rusty
Richard Alexander
Henchman Pete Grump
Ted Adams
Hank
Slim Whitaker
Stable Owner
Frank Austin
Chuckawalla Charlie Morgan [Ch. 1]
Jim Farley
Graham
Bob Burns
Miner in Saloon
Frank Brownlee
Slim
Ken Terrell
Jack Rube Clifford
Lafe Hogan
Jack Rockwell
Henchman Trigger
Don Rowan
Blake
James Blaine
Joseph Kirby
Ivor McFadden
Bragg
Charles Thomas
Rimrock [Ch. 4]
James Guilfoyle
Judge Knox [Chs. 2, 13-14]
Art Dillard
Miner
Chick Hannan
Miner
Jerome Harte
Richards
Al Haskell
Barfly
Jimmie Lucas
Saloon Waiter
Frank McCarroll
Lyncher
Leo J. McMahon
Barfly
Jay Michael
Cashier
Art Miles
Green
William Pagan
Marshal
Tex Palmer
Wagon Driver
Ed Payson
Buck Hansen
Alonzo Price
Mr. Wilson
Ruth Rickaby
Kate
Dick Rush
Saloon Waiter
Silver
Tombstone's Horse
Smoke
Jim's Horse
Ken Nolan
Cashier
Jack Casey
Leroy Johnson
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