Riders of Death Valley
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| Riders of Death Valley | |
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| 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 |
| Edited by | Saul A. Goodkind (supervisor) Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Release dates
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1 July 1941 |
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Running time
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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
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See also
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Riders of Death Valley at IMDb
- Riders of Death Valley at AllMovie
| Preceded by
Sky Raiders (1941)
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Universal Serial Riders of Death Valley (1941) |
Succeeded by Sea Raiders (1941) |
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