Blazing the Overland Trail

Infobox Film
name = Blazing the Overland Trail


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director = Spencer Gordon Bennet
producer = Sam Katzman
writer = George H. Plympton
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starring = Lee Roberts
Dennis Moore
Norma Brooks
Gregg Barton
Don C. Harvey
music = Mischa Bakaleinikoff
cinematography = Ira H. Morgan
editing = Earl Turner
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = 4 August 1956
runtime = 15 episodes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0049017

"Blazing the Overland Trail" (1956) is a Columbia film serial. It was the last serial produced by Columbia and the last serial ever produced by any major studio. Republic Pictures, the only other serial producing studio in the mid-1950s, had ceased its serial production in the previous year with "King of the Carnival".

Plot

Rance Devlin intends to build his own empire in the American west, using his Black Raiders and allied Indians to do so. Only US Army scout Tom Bridger, allied with Pony Express rider Ed Marr and US Cavalry Captain Frank Carter can stop him.

Cast

*Lee Roberts as Tom Bridger, US Army scout
*Dennis Moore as Ed Marr, Pony Express relay station manager
*Norma Brooks as Lola Martin
*Gregg Barton as Captain Frank Carter, U.S. Cavalry
*Don C. Harvey as Rance Devlin, Villainous rancher
*Lee Morgan as Alby
*Edward Coch as Carl
*Pierce Lyden as Bragg
*Reed Howes as Dunn
*Al Ferguson as Fergie
*Pete Kellett as Pete

Production

Blazing the Overland Trail uses stock footage from Overland with Kit Carson. [cite book
last = Harmon
first = Jim
coauthors= Donald F. Glut
authorlink = Jim Harmon
title = The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury
origyear = 1973
publisher = Routledge
isbn = 9780713000979
pages = pp. 320
chapter = 12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!" ]

Chapter titles

# Gun Emperor of the West
# Riding the Danger Trail
# The Black Riders
# Into the Flames
# Trapped in the Runaway Wagon
# Rifles for Redskins
# Midnight Attack
# Blast at Gunstock Pass
# War at the Wagon Camp
# Buffalo Stampede
# Into the Fiery Blast
# Cave-in
# Bugle Call
# Blazing Peril
# Raiders Unmasked_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 257
chapter = Filmography ]

ee also

*List of film serials by year
*List of film serials by studio

References

External links

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title=Columbia Serial
before=Perils of the Wilderness (1956)
years=Blazing the Overland Trail (1956)
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