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 henchmanCline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 229–230. {{ISBN|0-7864-0471-X}}. 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.

Cast

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Dick Foran as Jim Benton, vigilante hero
Leo Carrillo as Pancho Lopez
Buck Jones as Tombstone
Charles Bickford as Wolf Reade, villain hired by Kirby and Davis
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Borax Bill
Lon Chaney Jr. as Butch, one of Reade's henchmen
Noah Beery Jr. as Smokey
Jean Brooks as Mary Morgan
James Blaine as Joseph Kirby, one of the mastermind villains
Monte Blue as Rance Davis, the other mastermind villain
Glenn Strange as Tex, a Benton Rider
Roy Barcroft as Dirk, one of Reade's henchmen
Jack Rockwell as Trigger, one of Reade's henchmen
Ethan Laidlaw as Rusty, one of Reade's henchmen
Richard Alexander as Pete Grump, one of Reade's henchmen

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Production

Riders of Death Valley was Universal's "all-star, high-budget western cliffhanger."{{cite book |last=Harmon |first=Jim |author2=Donald F. Glut |author2-link=Donald F. Glut | author-link=Jim Harmon |title=The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury |year=1973 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-7130-0097-9 |pages=361 |chapter=14. The Villains "All Bad, All Mad"}} It provided a lot of stock footage for later serials.{{cite book |last=Harmon |first=Jim |author2=Donald F. Glut |author2-link=Donald F. Glut |author-link=Jim Harmon |title=The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury |year=1973 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-7130-0097-9 |pages=319 |chapter=12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!"}}

=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:{{cite book |last=Cline |first=William C. |title=In the Nick of Time |url=https://archive.org/details/innickoftimemot00clin |url-access=registration |year=1984 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |isbn=0-7864-0471-X |pages=[https://archive.org/details/innickoftimemot00clin/page/229 229]–230 |chapter=Filmography}}