Overland Mail (1942 film) explained

Overland Mail (1942 film) should not be confused with Overland Mail (1939 film).

Overland Mail
Director:Ford Beebe
John Rawlins
Producer:Henry MacRae
Story:Johnston McCulley
Starring:Lon Chaney Jr.
Noah Beery Jr.
Noah Beery Sr.
Music:Hans J. Salter
Cinematography:George Robinson
William A. Sickner
Editing:Joseph Gluck
Patrick Kelley
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Distributor:Universal Pictures
Runtime:15 chapters (279 min)
Country:United States
Language:English

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.

Plot

Two 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

Chapter titles

  1. A Race with Disaster
  2. Flaming Havoc
  3. The Menacing Herd
  4. The Bridge of Disaster
  5. Hurled to the Depths
  6. Death at the Stake
  7. The Path of Peril
  8. Imprisoned in Flames
  9. Hidden Danger
  10. Blazing Wagons
  11. The Trail of Terror
  12. In the Claws of the Cougar
  13. The Frenzied Mob
  14. The Toll of Treachery
  15. The Mail Goes Through

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See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Cline , William C. . In the Nick of Time . registration . 1984 . McFarland & Company, Inc. . 0-7864-0471-X . 233 . Filmography .