The Phantom of the West

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name = The Phantom of the West


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director = D. Ross Lederman
Theodore Joos
producer = Nat Levine
writer = Wyndham Gittens
Ford Beebe
Ben Cohen
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starring = Tom Tyler
William Desmond
Tom Santschi
Dorothy Gulliver
Philo McCullough
Frank Lanning
music = Lee Zahler
cinematography = M.A. Anderson
Ben Kline
Joseph Novak
editing = Wyndham Gittens
distributor = Mascot Pictures
released = 1 January 1931
runtime = 10 chapters (172 min)
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0021249

"The Phantom of the West" (1931) is a Mascot movie serial and the second all-talking serial they produced.

Tom Tyler stars as Jim Lester, trying to prove that Francisco Cortez (Frank Lanning) is innocent of killing his own father. The real villain is the mysterious "Phantom" and his League of the Lawless.

Plot

"Francisco Cortez" escapes prison after serving fifteen years for the murder of "Jim Lester's" father. He proclaim's his innocence and lists seven men who may be the real killer, who uses the name "The Phantom".

Cast

*Tom Tyler as Jim Lester
*William Desmond as Martin Blaine
*Tom Santschi as Bud Landers
*Dorothy Gulliver as Mona Cortez, Francisco Cortez's daughter
*Philo McCullough as Royce Macklin
*Frank Lanning as Francisco Cortez, escaped convict falsely accused of murdering Jim Lester's father
*Tom Dugan as Oscar, Sheriff's deputy and comic relief
*Joe Bonomo as Keno, a gunman
*Frank Hagney as Sheriff Jim H. Ryan
*Hallie Sullivan as Ruby Blair
*Kermit Maynard as Peter Drake
*Dick Dickinson as Harvey Stewart
*James Carlyle as Sam Hollister
*W.J. Holmes as Pee Wee

Chapter titles

#The Ghost Riders
#The Stairway of Doom
#The Horror in the Dark
#The Battle of the Strong
#The League of the Lawless
#The Canyon of Calamity
#The Price of Silence
#The House of Hate
#The Fatal Secret
#Rogue's Roundup

tunts

*Joe Bonomo
*Yakima Canutt
*Cliff Lyons
*Kermit Maynard

Trivia

*Tom Tyler later played a character called "The Phantom" in Columbia Pictures' serial of Lee Falk's The Phantom.

References

*imdb title|id=0021249|title=The Phantom of the West

External links

*imdb title|id=0021249|title=The Phantom of the West

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title=Mascot Serial
before=The Lone Defender (1930)
years=The Phantom of the West (1931)
after=King of the Wild (1931)