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Riders of Death Valley

Riders of Death Valley

19414h 43m

Status

Released

Release

1941

Runtime

4h 43m

Storyline

"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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
4h 43m
Jul 1, 1941
Languages
English
Production Countries
United States of America

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