Gordon of Ghost City
Appearance
Gordon of Ghost City | |
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Directed by | Ray Taylor |
Written by | Ella O'Neill George H. Plympton Basil Dickey Het Mannheim Harry O. Hoyt |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 12 chapters (220 minutes) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Gordon of Ghost City is a 1933 Pre-Code Universal movie serial based on the novel Oh, Promise Me! by Peter B. Kyne, directed by Ray Taylor and starring Buck Jones and Madge Bellamy.[1]
Plot
[edit]Buck Gordon is hired to discover who has been rustling a rancher's cattle, while simultaneously trying to protect a young girl (Madge Bellamy) and her prospector grandfather (Tom Ricketts) from having their newly discovered gold mine stolen from them by a mystery villain.
Cast
[edit]- Buck Jones as Buck Gordon
- Madge Bellamy as Mary Gray
- Walter Miller as Rance Radigan
- Tom Ricketts as Amos Gray
- William Desmond as John Mulford
- Francis Ford as The Mystery Man
- Edmund Cobb as Cowhand Scotty
- Craig Reynolds as Henchman Ed (as Hugh Enfield)
- Bud Osborne as Henchman Hank (as Bud Osbourne)
- Ethan Laidlaw as Henchman Pete
Chapter titles
[edit]- A Lone Hand
- The Stampede
- Trapped
- The Man of Mystery
- Riding for Life
- Blazing Prairies
- Entombed in the Tunnel
- The Thundering Herd
- Flames of Fury
- Swimming in the Torrent
- A Wild Ride
- Mystery of Ghost City
Source:[1]
Home Entertainment
[edit]On May 12, 2020, the entire serial was released on Region 1 DVD and Blu-Ray by VCI Entertainment. Universal licensed the rights and granted them access to the original 35mm elements.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company. p. 208. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
External links
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Categories:
- 1933 films
- 1933 Western (genre) films
- American black-and-white films
- Films based on American novels
- Films based on Western (genre) novels
- Universal Pictures film serials
- Films directed by Ray Taylor
- American Western (genre) films
- Films set in ghost towns
- 1930s English-language films
- Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton
- 1930s American films
- English-language Western (genre) films
- 1930s Western (genre) film stubs