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The movie Riders of Death Valley (Original title Riders of Death Valley) has in the main roles on Dick Foran (Jim Benton), Leo Carrillo (Pancho Lopez), Charles Bickford (Wolf Reade), Lon Chaney Jr. (Henchman Butch), Noah Beery Jr. (Smokey), Jean Brooks (Mary Morgan (as Jeanne Kelly)), Monte Blue (Rance Davis), Glenn Strange (Tex, a Benton Rider), Bud Osborne (Stagecoach Driver) The release date of the movie is 01.07.1941. This movie it is produced by Universal Pictures . Filmed in the following locations: Mohave Valley, Arizona, USA . Production countries: United States of America Movie Genre: Movies Action, Movies Western

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.