Riders of Death Valley
"A MILLION-DOLLAR SUPER SERIAL! With a thousand teeming thrills in 15 exciting chapters!"
Overview
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.
About Riders of Death Valley (1941)
Released in 1941, Riders of Death Valley is a action and western film from Universal Pictures (United States of America). It was directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor and written by Sherman L. Lowe and George H. Plympton. The cast is led by Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Buck Jones, Charles Bickford and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams. With a runtime of 4h 43m, the film averages 6.8/10 across 2 TMDB ratings.
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