Release Year: 1935
Release Date: Sun Jul 07 1935
Runtime: 310 minutes
Filmed In Black And White
Genre: Western
Filming Locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Actors: Hank Bell (as Stage Driver), Ted Billings (as Townsman), Stanley Blystone (as Night Deputy), John Bose (as Henchman), Buck Bucko (as Saloon Gambler), Roy Bucko (as Saloon Gambler), Bob Card (as Barfly), Horace B. Carpenter (as Burke), Bobby Dunn (as Freighter), Heenan Elliott (as Jack), Billy Franey (as Bartender), Cecil Kellogg (as Jake), Jim Mason (as Henchman), Bud McClure (as Water Guard), Lafe McKee (as Stage Passenger), Buck Morgan (as Gambler), Buck Moulton (as Water Guard), Artie Ortego (as Indian Joe), Paul Palmer (as Blackie), Tex Phelps (as Townsman), Jack Rockwell (as Sheriff), Buddy Roosevelt (as Forest Ranger), George Sowards (as George), Lem Sowards (as Cowhand), Harry Tenbrook (as Limpy), Blackjack Ward (as Wagon Driver), Roger Williams (as Bill Trask), Jay Wilsey (as Slim)
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Plot: “The Roaring West” was Universal’s 27th sound-era serial (between “The Call of the Savage” and “Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery”) and the second of the five serials Buck Jones made at Universal, with his sixth serial “White Eagle-1941” coming from Columbia. The Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin also put out two different Big Little Books, “Buck Jones in ‘The Roaring West’-number 1174 and “Buck Jones in ‘The Fighting Rangers’ — number 1188 — based on this serial with over 100 production stills from the serial in each book. Possibly,but not likely, someday the sources that insist on putting the Pat O’Brien from Warners into the cast of Universal serials will either actually see this (and other Universal serials) and learn that the actor in those was one Pat J. O’Brien, who was nearly always billed just as Pat O’Brien. If they don’t care to bother with watching the films, there is the possibility that some kind soul will scan and send them some stills of both Pat O’Briens. The opening chapter of this serial — “The Land Rush” — finds cowpunchers Montana Larkin and Jinglebob Morgan riding into new territory to join an impending land rush. They carry a mail-order catalog hiding a map giving the location of valuable mineral deposits in the land-rush territory. They stop at the ranch of Jim Parker where Montana saves Parker’s daughter Mary from a wild horse. The gabby Jinglebob plays poker with ranch foreman Gil Gillespie and reveals the secret of the map. Gil has his henchman, Hank, steal the map, copy it and return it without being seen. Montana, Jin
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Sources: Museum Of Western Film History Archives, IMDb