Gordon of Ghost City (1933)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Ray Taylor

Writers:

Basil Dickey (adaptation)
Harry O. Hoyt (adaptation)

Release Date:

14 August 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

12 super chapters paced with wild thrills!

Plot:

A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to...

Plot Keywords:

Serial | 12 Chapters | Based On Novel

Cast

Buck Jones	...	Buck Gordon
Madge Bellamy	...	Mary Gray
Walter Miller	...	Rance Radigan
Tom Ricketts	...	Amos Gray
William Desmond	...	John Mulford
Francis Ford	...	The Mystery Man
Edmund Cobb	...	Cowhand Scotty
Craig Reynolds	...	Henchman Ed (as Hugh Enfield)
Bud Osborne	...	Henchman Hank (as Bud Osbourne)
Ethan Laidlaw	...	Henchman Pete
Silver	...	Silver (Buck's horse)

Runtime:

USA:220 min (12 chapters)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Company:

Universal Pictures

Movie Connections:

Edited into Border Wolves (1938)

Buck Jones is ideally cast in his first serial for Universal.

As the roving range detective, battling rustlers with a ghost town hideout, Buck Jones is ideally cast in the first of his four serials for Universal. Madge Bellamy is the feisty heroine and former silent serial stars, William Desmond and Walter Miller, provide excellent support as the crusty rancher and his sneaky foreman. Just about every chapter has Buck and Silver being chased by the bad guys or chasing after them and the plot is enlivened by the ghost town being inhabited by a mystery man. The best line in the movie must be when Buck is trussing up a rustler and says, "I'd rock you to sleep if I could find a rock!" If you like Buck Jones or Western serials, both are combined here to good effect.