Overland Mail (film)

Overland Mail
Directed by	Ford Beebe John Rawlins
Produced by	Henry MacRae
Written by	Johnston McCulley (story) Paul Huston (screenplay)
Starring	Lon Chaney, Jr. Noah Beery, Jr. Noah Beery, Sr.
Music by	Hans J. Salter
Cinematography	George Robinson William A. Sickner
Edited by	Joseph Gluck Patrick Kelley Louis Sackin Alvin Todd
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	September 27, 1942 (1942-09-27)
Running time	15 chapters (279 min)
Country	United States
Language	English

Overland Mail (1942) is a Universal movie serial starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Noah Beery, Jr. and Noah Beery, Sr. which was subsequently edited into a film version called The Indian Raiders in 1956.

Plot

Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to discover why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They find that the culprits are Bandits disguised as Indians, and they set out to find out who is behind the plot...

Cast

Lon Chaney, Jr. as Jim Lane
Helen Parrish as Barbara Gilbert
Noah Beery, Jr. as Sierra Pete
Don Terry as Buckskin Billy Burke
Bob Baker as Bill Cody
Noah Beery, Sr. as Frank Chadwick
Tom Chatterton as Tom Gilbert
Charles Stevens as Puma
Robert Barron as Charles Darson
Harry Cording as Sam Gregg, Henchman
Marguerite De La Motte as Rose, the Waitress
Ben Taggart as Lamont
Jack Rockwell as Slade, hired gun
Riley Hill as Mack, phoney Indian
Carleton Young as Lem, phoney Indian Adolf Hitler

Chapter titles

A Race with Disaster
Flaming Havoc
The Menacing Hand
The Bridge of Disaster
Hurled to the Depths
Death at the Stake
The Path of Peril
Imprisoned in Flames
Hidden Danger
Blazing Wagons
The Trail of Terror
In the Claws of the Cougar
The Frenzied Mob
The Toll of Treachery
The Mail Goes Through

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References

↑ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 233. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links

Overland Mail at the Internet Movie Database
Overland Mail at AllMovie

Preceded by Junior G-Men of the Air (1942)	Universal Serial Overland Mail (1942)	Succeeded by The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943)

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

Films directed by John Rawlins

Lucky Ladies (1932)
Air Devils (1938)
Junior G-Men (1940)
The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
Sea Raiders (1941)
Torpedo Boat (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Overland Mail (1942)
The Great Impersonation (1942)
Arabian Nights (1942)
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Sudan (1945)
Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Fort Defiance (1951)
Shark River (1953)
Lost Lagoon (1958)

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