Universal Pictures
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Riders of Death Valley
A MILLION-DOLLAR SUPER SERIAL! With a thousand teeming thrills in 15 exciting chapters!
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.
- Original title
- Riders of Death Valley
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $1,000,000
- Revenue
- —
Dick Foran
Jim Benton
Leo Carrillo
Pancho Lopez
Buck Jones
Tombstone
Charles Bickford
Wolf Reade
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Borax Bill
Lon Chaney Jr.
Henchman Butch
Noah Beery Jr.
Smokey
Jean Brooks
Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)
James Blaine
Joseph Kirby
Monte Blue
Rance Davis
Glenn Strange
Tex, a Benton Rider
Roy Barcroft
Henchman Dirk
Jack Rockwell
Henchman Trigger
Ethan Laidlaw
Henchman Rusty
Richard Alexander
Henchman Pete Grump
Frank Austin
Chuckawalla Charlie Morgan [Ch. 1]
William Hall
Dan Gordon [Chs. 1, 8-10]
Ernie Adams
Cactus Pete, Prospector [Ch.14]
Ted Adams
Hank
Frank Brownlee
Slim
Bob Burns
Miner in Saloon
Rod Cameron
Rider
Jack Rube Clifford
Lafe Hogan
Edmund Cobb
Salty
Jim Farley
Graham
Ivor McFadden
Bragg
Bud Osborne
Stagecoach Driver
Gil Perkins
Fighter
Jack Perrin
Stage Guard
Don Rowan
Blake
Richard Travis
Joe Miller
Slim Whitaker
Stable Owner
Cliff Lyons
Stunts
Duke York
Stunts
Gil Perkins
Stunts
Ken Terrell
Stunts
Ford Beebe
Director
Ray Taylor
Director
Frank Skinner
Original Music Composer
Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer
Jacques Jaccard
Dialogue
Sunset Pass
The Gunfighter
Way Out West
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Winners & Sinners
One Piece: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventure in Alabasta
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Walking Tall
Indra
Revenge of the Ninja
Pride of the Bowery
Vigilante
The Red Pony
Love, Honour and Obey
My Outlaw Brother
We Die Tonight
Enter the Ninja
Rough Riders' Round-up
Urban Justice
OM Chapter 1
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stagecoach
Giant
My Darling Clementine
Hud
The Cowboys
Westward the Women
Sergeant Rutledge
The Misfits
Silverado
Rango
Maverick
The Comancheros
Union Pacific
McLintock!
Broken Lance
Ramrod
Cat Ballou
Don't Come Knocking
The Left Handed Gun
Jul 1, 1941
