Directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor
Screen Play by Sherman L. Lowe, George Plympton, Basil Dickey, Jack O’Donnell
Original Story by Oliver Drake
Photography: Jerome Ash and William A. Sickner
Starring Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Buck Jones, Charles Bickford, Guinn “Big Boy” Williams, Lon Chaney, Jr., Noah Beery, Jr., Jeanne Kelly, Glenn Strange, Roy Barcroft
VCI is prepping another Universal serial for Blu-Ray release, 1941’s “million dollar super serial with a million thrills,” Riders Of Death Valley.
While I doubt they spent that much on it, it certainly has a million-dollar cast — the likes of Dick Foran, Buck Jones, Charles Bickford, Guinn “Big Boy” Williams, Lon Chaney, Jr., Noah Beery, Jr., Glenn Strange and Roy Barcroft!
For the Blu-ray, VCI will use original 35mm material. A still gallery and two-chapter commentary from yours truly will be included. This is a cool serial and should be a really nice release.
A few years later, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Glenn Strange would take each other on again in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), with Chaney as Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man, and Strange as Frankenstein’s monster.
50 Westerns From The 50s. 
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein is awesome. One of their best movies. Guinn Williams is great in everything I’ve seen, but I haven’t seen any of his own “Big Boy” series movies. I’ll have to look for some of those.
I’m looking for any photos of Ford Beebe, Jr. and I hope you can help me out! Ford, Jr. worked at Disney’s for several years as an assistant director and story-man, and left the studio shortly after the infamous strike in 1941. He worked as an editor at Universal for a number of years and then worked on some independent productions on his own. He died in Hawaii about 15 years ago. I interviewed him for a book I was writing on about serials – SINISTER SERIALS OF BORIS KARLOFF, BELA LUGOSI AND LON CHANEY, JR. and I should have asked him to borrow a photo of himself as well as his father. My plan then was to just use his comments about the industry in quote form, but recently, I realized the interviews were worth printing in full. Do you have any suggestions on sources for photos? Thanks!