Riders of Death Valley is a 1941 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures. It was a high budget serial with an all-star cast led by Dick Foran and Buck Jones. Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor directed. It also features Lon Chaney Jr. in a supporting role as a villainous henchman as well as Noah Beery Jr., Charles Bickford, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Monte Blue, Roy Barcroft, Richard Alexander and Glenn Strange.

Plot

The villainous Wolf Reade and his gang set out to discover the location of a lost mine and lay claim to it.

Riders of Death Valley

Cast

Production

Riders of Death Valley was Universal's "all-star, high-budget western cliffhanger." It provided a lot of stock footage for later serials.

Riders of Death Valley

Stunts

Jack Casey

Leroy Johnson

Gil Perkins

Ken Terrell doubling George J. Lewis

Duke York

Chapter titles

Death Marks the Trail

The Menacing Herd

The Plunge of Peril

Flaming Fury

The Avalanche of Doom

Blood and Gold

Death Rides the Storm

Descending Doom

Death Holds the Reins

Devouring Flames

The Fatal Blast

Thundering Doom

Bridge of Disaster

A Fight to the Death

The Harvest of Hate

Source:

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See also

List of film serials

List of film serials by studio

References

External links

1941 films

American black-and-white films

1940s English-language films

Universal Pictures film serials

Films directed by Ford Beebe

Films directed by Ray Taylor

Films set in Inyo County, California

1941 Western (genre) films

American Western (genre) films

Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton

1940s American films