Adventures of Red Ryder

Infobox Film
name = The Adventures of Red Ryder


director =William Witney
John English
producer =Hiram S. Brown Jr
writer =Franklin Adreon
Ronald Davidson
Norman S. Hall
Barney A. Sarecky
Sol Shor
starring =Don "Red" Barry
Noah Beery
Tommy Cook
Maude Pierce
Vivian Coe
Harry Worth
Hal Taliaferro
cinematography = William Nobles
music = Cy Feuer
William Lava
Paul Sawtell
editing = William P. Thompson
Edward Todd
distributor =Republic Pictures
released = Flagicon|USA 28 June 1940cite book
last = Mathis
first = Jack
title = Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement
origyear = 1995
publisher = Jack Mathis Advertising
isbn = 0-9632878-1-8
pages = pp. 3, 10, 12-13
chapter = ]
runtime = 15 chapters / 211 minutes

country = USA
language = English
budget = $144,852 (negative cost: $145,961)
awards =
amg_id = 16:10284
imdb_id =0032184

"The Adventures of Red Ryder" (1940) is a 12-Chapter Republic Movie Serial starring Don "Red" Barry and Noah Beery, Sr. based on the western comic strip "Red Ryder". It was directed by William Witney and John English. This serial was the eighteenth of the sixty-six serials produced by Republic. Westerns, such as this serial, made up a third of all serials produced by the studio.

The plot follows a standard B-Western pattern of a villain trying to run the legitimate owners off their valuable land. In this case, the value comes from the building of a railroad.

Plot

A gang, led by banker Calvin Drake, plans to drive off ranchers from their land in order to profit from the building of a railroad. However, on one of these ranches, the Circle R, lives the Ryder family who resist the gang. After his father, Tom, is killed by One Eye Chapin, Red Ryder swears revenge and sets out to defeat the gang once and for all.

Cast

*Don "Red" Barry as Red Ryder. Donald Barry retained the nickname from this serial as Don "Red" Barry.cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 22
chapter = 2. In Search of Ammunition ]
*Noah Beery as Ace Hanlon
*Tommy Cook as Little Beaver
*Maude Pierce Allen as Duchess Ryder
*Vivian Coe as Beth Andrews
*Harry Worth as Calvin Drake
*Hal Taliaferro as Cherokee Sims
*William Farnum as Colonel Tom Ryder
*Bob Kortman as One-Eye Chapin
*Carleton Young as Sheriff Dade

Production

"Adventures of Red Ryder" was based on the comic strip "Red Ryder" by Fred Harmon.

The serial was budgeted at $144,852 although the final negative cost was $145,961 (a $1,109, or 0.8%, overspend). 1940 was the first year in which Republic's overall spending on serial production was less than in the previous year.

It was filmed between 27 March and 25 April 1940. The serial's production number was 997.

pecial Effects

The special effects in this serial were created by the Lydecker brothers, Republic's in-house effects team.

tunts

*David Sharpe as Red Ryder (doubling Don "Red" Barry)
*Duke Green
*Ted Mapes
*Post Park
*Ken Terrell
*Bill Yrigoyen
*Joe Yrigoyen

Release

Theatrical

"Adventures of Red Ryder"'s official release date is 28 June 1940, although this is actually the date the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges.

Chapter titles

# Murder on the Santa Fe Trail (27min 48s)
# Horsemen of Death (16min 42s)
# Trail's End (16min 41s)
# Water Rustlers (16min 39s)
# Avalanche (16min 44s)
# Hangman's Noose (16min 44s)
# Framed (16min 42s)
# Blazing Walls (16min 42s)
# Records of Doom (16min 42s)
# One Second to Live (16min 43s)
# The Devil's Marksman (16min 41s)
# Frontier Justice (16min 44s)_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 227
chapter = Filmography ]

This was one of two 12-chapter serials produced by Republic in 1940. The other is the following "King of the Royal Mounted" which was also based on a comic strip. Republic's standard pattern was two 12-chapter serials and two 15-chapter serials in each year.

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