Riders of Death Valley

Riders of Death Valley
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
Editing by	Saul A. Goodkind (supervisor) Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	1 July 1941
Running time	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.

1 Cast
2 Production
- 2.1 Stunts
3 Chapter titles
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

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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References

^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut. "14. The Villains "All Bad, All Mad"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. pp. 361. ISBN 9780713000979.
^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut. "12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. pp. 319. ISBN 9780713000979.
^ Cline, William C.. "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 229–230. ISBN 078640471X.

External links

Riders of Death Valley at the Internet Movie Database
Riders of Death Valley at AllRovi

Preceded by Sky Raiders (1941)	Universal Serial Riders of Death Valley (1941)	Succeeded by Sea Raiders (1941)

Universal serials

Serials

Silent Serials (1914-1929)	Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery • The Master Key • The Trey o' Hearts • The Black Box • The Broken Coin • Graft • Under the Crescent • The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring • Liberty • The Mystery Ship • The Red Ace • The Gray Ghost • The Voice on the Wire • The Brass Bullet • Bull's Eye • The Lion's Claws • Lure of the Circus • The Red Glove • The Great Radium Mystery • The Lion Man • The Midnight Man • The Flaming Disc • The Moon Riders • King of the Circus • The Vanishing Dagger • The Dragon's Net • The Diamond Queen • Do or Die • The Secret Four • Terror Trail • The White Horseman • Winners of the West • The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • In the Days of Buffalo Bill • Perils of the Yukon • The Radio King • With Stanley in Africa • Around the World in Eighteen Days • Beasts of Paradise • The Eagle's Talons • The Ghost City • In the Days of Daniel Boone • The Oregon Trail • The Phantom Fortune • The Social Buccaneer • The Steel Trail • The Fast Express • The Fighting Ranger • The Iron Man • The Riddle Rider • Wolves of the North • Ace of Spades • The Great Circus Mystery • The Scarlet Streak • Fighting with Buffalo Bill • Strings of Steel • The Winking Idol • Blake of Scotland Yard • The Fire Fighters • The Return of the Riddle Rider • The Trail of the Tiger • Whispering Smith Rides • Haunted Island • Tarzan the Mighty • The Vanishing Rider • The Diamond Master • A Final Reckoning • The Pirate of Panama

Part-sound Serials (1929-1930)	The Ace of Scotland Yard • Tarzan the Tiger • The Jade Box • The Lightning Express • Terry of the Times • The Indians Are Coming

Pre-war Sound Serials (1931-1942)	Finger Prints • Heroes of the Flames • Danger Island • Battling with Buffalo Bill • The Spell of the Circus • Detective Lloyd • The Airmail Mystery • Heroes of the West • The Jungle Mystery • The Lost Special • Clancy of the Mounted • The Phantom of the Air • Gordon of Ghost City • The Perils of Pauline • Pirate Treasure • The Vanishing Shadow • The Red Rider • Tailspin Tommy • Rustlers of Red Dog • The Call of the Savage • The Roaring West • Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery • The Adventures of Frank Merriwell • Flash Gordon • The Phantom Rider • Ace Drummond • Jungle Jim • Secret Agent X-9 • Wild West Days • Radio Patrol • Tim Tyler's Luck • Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars • Flaming Frontiers • Red Barry • Scouts to the Rescue • Buck Rogers • The Oregon Trail • The Phantom Creeps • The Green Hornet • Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe • Winners of the West • Junior G-Men • The Green Hornet Strikes Again! • Sky Raiders • Riders of Death Valley • Sea Raiders

War-time Serials (1942-1945)	Don Winslow of the Navy • Gang Busters • Junior G-Men of the Air • Overland Mail • The Adventures of Smilin' Jack • Don Winslow of the Coast Guard • Adventures of the Flying Cadets • The Great Alaskan Mystery • Raiders of Ghost City • Mystery of the River Boat • Jungle Queen • The Master Key • Secret Agent X-9

Post-war Serials (1945-1946)	The Royal Mounted Rides Again • The Scarlet Horseman • Lost City of the Jungle • The Mysterious Mr. M

See also

Film serials List of film serials • List of film serials by studio