Riders of Death Valley (1941)
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Release07/01/1941
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ProductionUniversal Pictures
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Rotten tomato65%
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Original titleRiders of Death Valley
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Original languageen
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Production Cost
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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.
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Casts
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Jim Benton
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Pancho Lopez
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Tombstone
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Wolf Reade
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Borax Bill
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Henchman Butch
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Smokey
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Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)
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Joseph Kirby
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Rance Davis
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Tex, a Benton Rider
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Henchman Dirk
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Henchman Trigger
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Henchman Rusty
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Henchman Pete Grump
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Chuckawalla Charlie Morgan [Ch. 1]
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Rimrock [Ch. 4]
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Dan Gordon [Chs. 1, 8-10]
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Judge Knox [Chs. 2, 13-14]
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Cactus Pete, Prospector [Ch.14]
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Hank
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Slim
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Miner in Saloon
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Rider
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Lafe Hogan
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Salty
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Miner
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Graham
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Miner
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Richards
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Barfly
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Saloon Waiter
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Lyncher
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Bragg
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Barfly
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Cashier
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Green
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Stagecoach Driver
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Marshal
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Wagon Driver
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Buck Hansen
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Fighter
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Stage Guard
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Mr. Wilson
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Kate
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Blake
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Saloon Waiter
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Tombstone's Horse
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Jim's Horse
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Joe Miller