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