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.
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Movie Details: Riders of Death Valley
| Title | Riders of Death Valley |
| Genre(s) | Action, Western |
| Release | July 1, 1941 |
| 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. |
| Language(s) | English |
| Director | Ford Beebe |
| Casts | Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Buck Jones, Charles Bickford, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Lon Chaney Jr., Noah Beery Jr., Jean Brooks, James Blaine, Monte Blue, Glenn Strange, Roy Barcroft, Jack Rockwell, Ethan Laidlaw, Richard Alexander, Frank Austin, Charles Thomas, William Hall, James Guilfoyle, Ernie Adams, Ted Adams, Frank Brownlee, Bob Burns, Rod Cameron, Jack Rube Clifford, Edmund Cobb, Art Dillard, Jim Farley, Chick Hannan, Jerome Harte, Al Haskell, Jimmie Lucas, Frank McCarroll, Ivor McFadden, Leo J. McMahon, Jay Michael, Art Miles, Bud Osborne, William Pagan, Tex Palmer, Ed Payson, Gil Perkins, Jack Perrin, Alonzo Price, Ruth Rickaby, Don Rowan, Dick Rush, Silver, Smoke, Richard Travis, Slim Whitaker, Ken Nolan |
| Duration | 4 Hours and 43 Minutes |
| Rating | 6.5 |
