Overland Mail is a 1942 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures which stars Lon Chaney Jr., Noah Beery Jr. and Noah Beery Sr. It was subsequently edited into a film version called The Indian Raiders in 1956.
| Overland Mail | |
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| Directed by | Ford Beebe John Rawlins |
| Written by | Paul Huston George H. Plympton Griffin Jay Brenda Weisberg |
| Story by | Johnston McCulley |
| Produced by | Henry MacRae |
| Starring | Lon Chaney Jr. Noah Beery Jr. Noah Beery Sr. |
| Cinematography | George Robinson William A. Sickner |
| Edited by | Joseph Gluck Patrick Kelley Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
| Music by | Hans J. Salter |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 15 chapters (279 min) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editTwo investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to discover why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They find that the culprits are bandits disguised as Indians, and they set out to find out who is behind the plot.
Cast
edit- Lon Chaney Jr. as Jim Lane
- Helen Parrish as Barbara Gilbert
- Noah Beery Jr. as Sierra Pete
- Don Terry as Buckskin Billy Burke
- Bob Baker as Bill Cody
- Noah Beery Sr. as Frank Chadwick
- Tom Chatterton as Tom Gilbert
- Charles Stevens as Puma
- Robert Barron as Charles Darson
- Harry Cording as Sam Gregg, Henchman
- Marguerite De La Motte as Rose, the Waitress
- Ben Taggart as Lamont
- Jack Rockwell as Slade, hired gun
- Riley Hill as Mack, phoney Indian
- Carleton Young as Lem, phoney Indian Adolf Hitler
Chapter titles
edit- A Race with Disaster
- Flaming Havoc
- The Menacing Herd
- The Bridge of Disaster
- Hurled to the Depths
- Death at the Stake
- The Path of Peril
- Imprisoned in Flames
- Hidden Danger
- Blazing Wagons
- The Trail of Terror
- In the Claws of the Cougar
- The Frenzied Mob
- The Toll of Treachery
- The Mail Goes Through
Source:[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 233. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
External links
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