Fighting With Kit Carson - 12 chapter movie serial
by Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer
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Actor: Betsy King Ross, Iron Eyes Cody, Johnny Mack Brown, Noah Beery, Yakima CanuttDirector: Armand Schaefer, Colbert Clark
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, Mono, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 233 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
DVD Reviews of Fighting With Kit Carson - 12 chapter movie serial
DVD Review: Kit and a kaboodle of gold
Summary: 4 Stars
MASCOT PICTURES made serials under its own name from 1926 to 1935. After that, MASCOT and four other lesser Poverty Row studios were combined under the REPUBLIC PICTURES banner.
THE STORY of KIT CARSON:
The Mystery Riders are after the gold being transported in a pack train that Kit Carson is escorting.
CAST:
Johnny Mack Brown - Kit Carson
Betsy King Ross - Joan Fargo, aka Johnny Fargo
Noah Beery - Cyrus Kraft
Noah Beery Jr. - Nakomas
Tully Marshall - Jim Bridge [Chs. 1-2]
Edmund Breese - Matt Fargo [Chs. 1-7, 12]
Lane Chandler - Army Sergeant [Chs. 10-12]
also:
Yakima Canutt - Mystery Rider (uncredited)
Iron Eyes Cody - Cheyenne Rider [Chs. 1, 4] (uncredited)
William Farnum - Elliott [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
William Witney - Settler/Indian/Trooper (uncredited)
CHAPTERS:
1. The Mystery Riders
2. The White Chief
3. Hidden Gold
4. The Silent Doom
5. Murder Will Out
6. The Secret of Iron Mountain
7. The Law of the Lawless
8. Red Phantoms
9. The Invisible Enemy
10. Midnight Magic
11. Unmasked
12. The Trail To Glory
CARSON trivia:
Lane Chandler was a silent screen star who slipped into supporting roles in 'B' movies from the early 1930s on.
In his 35-year career (beginning in 1914), Slim Whitaker appeared in over 340 westerns. He has a small role here.
William Witney (several minor characters) was CARSON director Colbert Clark's brother-in-law. In 1937, Witney began his second (and principal) career as a director of western serials, movies and TV shows.
Stuntman-extraordinaire Yakima Canutt starred in a few silent-era westerns. He was also at times an assistant director, production coordinator, writer and stunt coordinator on dozens of great films. Here, Canutt is one of the Mystery Riders.
Iron Eyes Cody specialized in playing Native Americans, yet he was the son of Italian immigrant parents. Cody denied this even in court in 1996, when his heritage was challenged. Cody's most famous role was his briefest: he was the Indian who sheds a tear for a blighted American environment in "Keep America Beautiful" ads that ran from 1971 into the 1980s.
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Gene Autry appears briefly in MYSTERY MOUNTAIN (starring Ken Maynard), which is another terrific MASCOT western cliffhanger.
DVD Review: "The King of B-Westerns & Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Fighting with Kit Carson (1933)"
Summary: 5 Stars
VCI Entertainment, Mascot Pictures and Nat Levine present "Fighting with Kit Carson" (1933) (digitally remastered), 12 Chapters of hard riding cliffhangers blazing the trail of the pioneer west...mixed with hair breadth escapes ending each episode...A pack train led by Kit Carson is attacked by Cyrus Kraft (boss & leader) and his Mystery Riders, who want a government shipment of gold carried by the wagons. Matt Fargo manages to hide the gold, but must confront the Mystery Riders time after time in order to prevent them from finding and carrying away the treasure...can Carson succeed against such heavy odds fighting the Mystery Riders...will Johnny Fargo be discovered that he is really Joan the daughter of Matt Fargo...does Cyrus Kraft find himself in a double cross by one of his leading henchmen...all this and more in each spellbinding adventurous chapters.
Under director's Colbert Clark and Armand Schaefer with screenplay by Colbert Clark and Wyndham Gittens...the cast include a very young Johnny Mack Brown (Kit Carson), Betsy King Ross as (Joan Fargo aka Johnny Fargo), Noah Berry (Cyrus Kraft), Noah Berry Jr ((Nakomas - son of Dark Eagle), Edmund Breese (Matt Fargo), Lafe McKee (Luke Foster), Lane Chandler (Army Sargeant)...another great serial provided by Mascot Pictures during their heyday of the early '30s.
Chapter Titles
1. The Mystery Riders
2. The White Chief
3. Hidden Gold
4. The Silent Doom
5. Murder Will Out
6. The Secret of Iron Mountain
7. The Law of the Lawless
8. Red Phantoms
9. The Invisible Enemy
10.Midnight Magic
11.Unmasked!
12.The Trail to Glory
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
Johnny Mack Brown
Noah Berry
Betsy King Ross
Armand Schaefer (Director)
Colbert Clark (Director)
If you're into vintage serials as I am, why not pick up a copy of the following titles from VCI Home Video:
VCI CLIFFHANGER TRAILERS:
1. Adventures of Red Ryder (Don "Red" Barry)
2. Adventures of the Flying Cadets (Bobby Jordan)
3. Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe)
4. Captain Midnight (Dave O'Brien)
5. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (Judd Holdren & I. Stanford Jolley)
6. Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd)
7. Don Winslow of the Navy (Don Terry)
8. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (Don Terry)
9. Drums of Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon)
10.Fighting Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown)
11.Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe)
12.The Green Archer (Victory Jory)
13.Jungle Girl (Frances Gifford)
14.Jungle Jim (Grant Withers & Raymond Hatton)
15.Lost City of the Jungle (Russell Hayden & Keye Luke)
16.Mandrake the Magician (Warren Hull & Dick Curtis)
17.Miracle Rider (Tom Mix & Tony Jr)
18.The Painted Stallion (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
19.The Phantom (Tom Tyler)
20.The Return of Chandu (Bela Lugosi)
21.Riders of Death Valley (Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo & Buck Jones)
22.Secret Agent X-9 (1937) (Scott Kolk & Henry Brandon)
23.Secret Agent X-9 (1945) (Lloyd Bridges & Keye Luke)
24.Sky Raiders (Donald Woods & Billy Halop)
25.Undersea Kingdom (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
26.Winners of the West (Dick Foran, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft & Charles Stevens)
27.Zane Greys "King of the Royal Mounted" (Allan "Rocky" Lane)
28.Zorro's Cliffhanger Collection (Reed Hadley, John Carroll & Linda Stirling)
Coming soon January 2006 from VCI Home Video on DVD..."FLAMING FRONTIERS" (1938), Universal Serial with 15 chapters, featuring Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Hansen, John Archer, James Blaine and Ralph Bowman..."OREGON TRAIL" (1939), another Universal Serial with 15 exciting chapters featuring Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Roy Barcoft and Charles King..."THE TALL TEXAN" (1953), full length feature starring Lloyd Bridges, Lee J Cobb, Luther Adler and Marie Windsor...watch for more details on VCI Entertainment and Amazon your two favorite sites for serials and B-Westerns.
Some great film footage from "Fighting With Kit Carson" appeared in other serials with plenty of great stunt people at the helm...many of the horse falls executed by Yakima Canutt and Cliff Lyons who were the best in the business of stuntwork...Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more of the same from the '30s vintage...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment, stay tuned once again with a top notch serial from VCI...just the way we like 'em!
Total Time: 225 mins on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment 8419 ~ (6/21/2005)
Description of Fighting With Kit Carson - 12 chapter movie serial
Escorting a shipment of gold through the lawless plains proves a dangerous job for famous frontiersman Kit Carson in this thrilling twelve episode serial. Following an ambush on their convoy, Carson's friend Matt Fargo has hidden the gold, but fur trader Cyrus Kraft and his hooded Mystery Riders will stop at nothing to gain possession of the treasure. Carson is equally determined to keep the gold out of their hands, and with the help of Indian warrior Nakomas, Fargo's beautiful daughter Joan, and wagoneer Jim Bridge, he sets out to thwart the plans of the shadowy syndicate.Future Rough Rider and top western draw Johnny Mack Brown stars as American folk hero Kit Carson, and character actor Noah Beery, older brother of Oscar winner Wallace Beery, appears as Cyrus Kraft. Betsy King Ross, the world's youngest "trick rider," made her mark in films two years later when she co-starred with Gene Autry in the ground-breaking serial, The Phantom Empire.General DVDs
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