Mystery Mountain (serial)

Mystery Mountain
Directed by	Otto Brower B. Reeves Eason
Produced by	Nat Levine Armand Schaefer Victor Zobel
Written by	Bennett Cohen B. Reeves Eason Sherman L. Lowe Barney A. Sarecky Armand Schaefer
Starring	Ken Maynard Verna Hillie Syd Saylor Edward Earle Hooper Atchley
Music by	Lee Zahler
Cinematography	Ernest Miller William Nobles
Editing by	Earl Turner
Distributed by	Mascot Pictures
Release date(s)	3 December 1934
Running time	12 chapters (223 min)
Country	United States
Language	English

Mystery Mountain (1934) is a Mascot movie serial.

It was a remake of Mascot's own The Hurricane Express (1932).

Plot overview

Detective Ken Williams tries to capture the master of disguise, The Rattler, who is attacking a railroad.

Cast

• Ken Maynard as Ken Williams, railroad detective
• Tarzan, Ken Williams' horse
• Verna Hillie as Jane Corwin
• Syd Saylor as Breezy Baker
• Edward Earle as Frank Blayden
• Hooper Atchley as Dr Edwards
• Edward Hearn as Lake
• Al Bridge as Tom Henderson
• Bob Kortman as Hank, one of The Rattler's henchmen
• Lew Meehan as Red, one of The Rattler's henchmen
• George Chesebro as Anderson, one of The Rattler's henchmen
• Tom London as Morgan, one of The Rattler's henchmen
• Lynton Brent as Mathews, telegrapher

Production

Stunts

• Yakima Canutt
• Cliff Lyons doubling Ken Maynard

According to the book The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury, Ken Maynard was doubled by Cliff Lyons in some scenes but performed many of his own stunts, especially riding, in others.^[1] However, the later book In the Nick of Time states that Ken Maynard was doubled by his brother Kermit Maynard. The physical similarities between the two makes it difficult to spot the difference on screen between actor and stuntman.^[2] Maynard's horse, Tarzan, had three doubles, one of which was blind.^[1]

Future serial director William Witney, working as an assistant director, performed one stunt during this serial when the stuntman failed to show up to the location shoot. He rode a horse at speed across a bridge over a ravine with a moving train behind him.^[3]

Special Effects

Special Effects by J. Laurence Wickland

Chapter titles

1. The Rattler
2. The Man Nobody Knows
3. The Eye That Never Sleeps
4. The Human Target
5. Phantom Outlaws
6. The Perfect Crime
7. Tarzan the Cunning
8. The Enemy's Stronghold
9. The Fatal Warning
10. The Secret of the Mountain
11. Behind the Mask
12. The Judgment of Tarzan

_Source:^[4]

See also

• List of film serials by year
• List of film serials by studio

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut. "3. Science Fiction/Westerns "Drop That Zap Gun, Hombre"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 59. ISBN 9780713000979. 
2. ^ Cline, William C.. "11. Sons of Adventure (The Stuntmen)". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. p. 157. ISBN 078640471X. 
3. ^ In a Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase: Moviemaking Remembered by the Guy at the Door; William Witney (McFarland & Company); ISBN 0786422580
4. ^ Cline, William C.. "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. p. 211. ISBN 078640471X. 

External links

• Mystery Mountain at the Internet Movie Database

Preceded by The Law of the Wild (1934)

Mascot Serial Mystery Mountain (1934)

Succeeded by The Phantom Empire (1935)