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.
Dick Foran
Leo Carrillo
Buck Jones
Charles Bickford
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Lon Chaney Jr.
Noah Beery Jr.
Jean Brooks
James Blaine
Monte Blue
Glenn Strange
Roy Barcroft
Jack Rockwell
Ethan Laidlaw
Richard Alexander
Frank Austin
Charles Thomas
William Hall
James Guilfoyle
Ernie Adams
Ted Adams
Frank Brownlee
Bob Burns
Rod Cameron
Jack Rube Clifford
Edmund Cobb
Art Dillard
Jim Farley
Chick Hannan
Jerome Harte
Al Haskell
Jimmie Lucas
Frank McCarroll
Ivor McFadden
Leo J. McMahon
Jay Michael
Art Miles
Bud Osborne
William Pagan
Tex Palmer
Ed Payson
Gil Perkins
Jack Perrin
Alonzo Price
Ruth Rickaby
Don Rowan
Dick Rush
Silver
Smoke
Richard Travis
Slim Whitaker
Ken Nolan