RIDERS OF DEATH VALLEY (1941) Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo & Buck Jones | Western | B&W

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Riders of Death Valley is a 1941 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures. It was a high budget serial with an all-star cast led by Dick Foran and Buck Jones. Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor directed. It also features Lon Chaney Jr. in a supporting role as a villainous henchman[1] as well as Noah Beery Jr., Charles Bickford, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Monte Blue, Roy Barcroft, Richard Alexander and Glenn Strange.

Synopsis

The villainous Wolf Reade and his gang set out to discover the location of a lost mine and lay claim to it.
This star-laden western serial has our able heroes escaping various perils devised by the evil Wolfe Reade and his pack of outlaws, who wish to lay claim to a fabled lost mine.

Cast & Crew

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

Directed by: Ford Beebe & Ray Taylor
Written by: Basil Dickey, Oliver Drake, Sherman L. Lowe , Jack O'Donnell & George H. Plympton
Produced by Henry MacRae
Cinematography: Jerome Ash & William A. Sickner
Edited by: Saul A. Goodkind (supervisor), Joseph Gluck, Louis Sackin & Alvin Todd
Music by: Charles Previn
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release date : July 1, 1941
Running time: 15 chapters (283 minutes)
Country: United States
Language: English