Riders of Death Valley (1941)
Movie Info
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
Noah Beery Jr.
as Smokey
as Smokey
Charles Bickford
as Wolf Read
as Wolf Read
James Blaine
as Joseph Kirby
as Joseph Kirby
Monte Blue
as Rance Davis
as Rance Davis
Leo Carrillo
as Pancho
as Pancho
Creighton Chaney
as Butch
as Butch
Dick Foran
as Jim Benton
as Jim Benton
Buck Jones
as Tombstone
as Tombstone
Glenn Strange
as Tex
as Tex
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
as Borax Bill
as Borax Bill
Jean Brooks
as Mary Morgan
as Mary Morgan
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