Riders of Death Valley (1941)

Özet

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.

Oyuncular

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  Dick Foran

  Jim Benton

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  Leo Carrillo

  Pancho Lopez

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  Buck Jones

  Tombstone

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  Charles Bickford

  Wolf Reade

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  Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

  Borax Bill

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  Lon Chaney Jr.

  Henchman Butch

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  Noah Beery Jr.

  Smokey

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  Jean Brooks

  Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)

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  James Blaine

  Joseph Kirby

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  Monte Blue

  Rance Davis

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  Glenn Strange

  Tex, a Benton Rider

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  Roy Barcroft

  Henchman Dirk

Ekip

Yönetmen

Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor

Senaryo

Sherman L. Lowe, George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Jack O'Donnell

Hikâye / Eser

Oliver Drake

Görüntü yönetmeni

William A. Sickner, Jerome Ash

Müzik

Ralph Freed, Frank Skinner +4 kişi

Kurgu

Joseph Gluck, Louis Sackin +1 kişi