Riders of Death Valley

Jul 1, 1941

4h 43m

★ 6.5

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.

Genres

Action

Western

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Jim Benton

Dick Foran

Pancho Lopez

Leo Carrillo

Tombstone

Buck Jones

Wolf Reade

Charles Bickford

Borax Bill

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Henchman Butch

Lon Chaney Jr.

Smokey

Noah Beery Jr.

Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)

Jean Brooks

Joseph Kirby

James Blaine

Rance Davis

Monte Blue

Tex, a Benton Rider

Glenn Strange

Henchman Dirk

Roy Barcroft

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