Riders of Death Valley

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[1] as well as Noah Beery Jr., Charles Bickford, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Monte Blue, Roy Barcroft, Richard Alexander and Glenn Strange.

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 was Universal's "all-star, high-budget western cliffhanger."[2] It provided a lot of stock footage for later serials.[3]

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