Daredevils of the West (1943)
May 1, 1943Release Date
Daredevils of the West (1943)
May 1, 1943Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Allan Lane
Duke Cameron
Kay Aldridge
June Foster
Eddie Acuff
Red Kelly
William Haade
Ward
Robert Frazer
Martin Dexter
Ted Adams
Silas Higby
George J. Lewis
Turner
Stanley Andrews
Colonel Andrews
Jack Rockwell
Sheriff Watson
John Hamilton
Senator Garfield
Budd Buster
Indian Scout
Charles Miller
Foster
Kenneth Harlan
Territorial Commissioner
John English
Director
Kenne Duncan
George Hooker
Ronald Davidson
Writer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 1, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time3h 16m
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Daredevils of the West is an American Western movie serial consisting of 12 chapters, released by Republic Pictures in 1943 starring Allan Lane and Kay Aldridge.
The plot involves a gang of land-grabbers who try to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory. There are similarities of style with other Republic serials released during wartime, such as King of the Mounties and The Masked Marvel.
Both Native American actors who played the Lone Ranger's companion Tonto, Chief Thunder Cloud (of the 1930s Lone Ranger movie serials) and Jay Silverheels (of 1950s Lone Ranger television program) appear in the sequence in which Kay Aldridge and Eddie Acuff are held hostage by Indians.
The serial was long considered to be a partially lost film; for years, copies of only chapters 2, 4, 5, and 12 circulated on 16-mm among film collectors. The entire serial, however, was never fully "lost", it was simply never re-released to theaters, or released on video because five reels of sound from the archival material apparently went missing not long after the serial's original exhibition. The absence of these reels may be the reason why Republic Pictures had no objection to subsequently selling off an incomplete print of the serial to cowboy actor William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd for use as stock footage.
All 12 chapters were screened, for the first time in 65 years, in May 2008 by the Serial Squadron at SerialFest 2008 in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The film was subsequently shown at the Lone Pine film festival in October 2009 and at the Memphis film festival in June 2010.
Daredevils of the West, with restored audio and dubbed missing-dialogue sequences, was released on DVD by the Serial Squadron, an organization that restores classic film serials, in February 2011.