The Royal Mounted Rides Again (1945)
THE MOUNTIES GET THEIR MAN...blasting the outlaws out of the Northwest!
221 min
In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial. They played Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers investigating the murder of a miner. The story, of course, was less important than speed and action, which directors Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins delivered in typical slap-dash Universal style. Starlet Daun Kennedy did not make much of an impression as the imperiled leading lady, and former star Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) was wasted in a subordinate role. Rondo Hatton, a non-actor whose grotesque appearance (caused by acromegaly, the so-called "Elephant Man" disease) was tastelessly exploited by Universal in the '40s, appeared as one of the outlaws.
- Release date
- October 23, 1945
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- George Dolenz as Frenchy
- Bill Kennedy as Wayne Decker
- Daun Kennedy as June Bailey
- Paul E. Burns as Bucket
- Milburn Stone as Taggart
- Robert Armstrong as Price
- Danny Morton as Dancer
- Addison Richards as Jackson Decker
- Tom Fadden as Lode MacKenzie
- Joe Haworth as Bunker
Crew
- Lewis D. Collins · Director
- Ray Taylor · Director
- Joseph O'Donnell · Writer
- Tom Gibson · Writer
- Harold Channing Wire · Writer
- Morgan Cox · Producer
- Jerome Ash · Cinematographer
- Charles Van Enger · Cinematographer
- Irving Birnbaum · Editor
- Norman A. Cerf · Editor
- Jack Dolan · Editor
- Alvin Todd · Editor