Overland Mail
(1941)
Adventure / Serial / Western
Directed by: Ford Beebe and John Rawlins
Cast:
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 Henchman Puma
Robert Barron as Charles Darson
Harry Cording as Sam Gregg
Marguerite De La Motte as Rose
Ben Taggart as Lamont
Jack Rockwell as Slade
Riley Hill as Mack-Henchman
Carleton Young as Lem
Ethan Laidlaw as Jake
Jack Clifford as Sheriff Tyler
Chief Many Treaties as Chief Black Cloud
Chief Thundercloud as Chief Many Moons
A Universal Serial in 15 Chapters.
Government agents Jim Lane and Sierra Pete are sent to investigate the breakdown of the U.S. Mail delivery in La Paz country, carried by the Overland Mail Company, which is operated by Tom Gilbert and his daughter Barbara. Aided by their friend, Buckskin Bill Burke, they discover that Frank Chadwick, using white renegades disguised as Indians, is behind the trouble as he wants the mail franchise owned by Gilbert's stage line.
Chapter titles:
Chapter 1 - A Race With Disaster
Chapter 2 - Flaming Havoc
Chapter 3 - The Menacing Herd
Chapter 4 - The Bridge of Disaster
Chapter 5 - Hurled to the Depths
Chapter 6 - Death at The Stake
Chapter 7 - The Path of Peril
Chapter 8 - Imprisoned in Flames
Chapter 9 - Hidden Dangers
Chapter 10 - Blazing Wagons
Chapter 11 - The Trail of Terror
Chapter 12 - In the Claws of the Cougar
Chapter 13 - The Frenzied Mob
Chapter 14 - The Toll of Treachery
Chapter 15 - The Mail Goes Through
