The Royal Mounted Rides Again (1945

1945 in film

The year 1945 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring a ghost named Casper.* With Rossellini's Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins....

) was a Universal

Universal Pictures

-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...

 film serial. Adventure serials of this type were popular in the early days of cinema

Film

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. The serial, often called cliffhanger

Cliffhanger

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction...

s, would show one episode per week, with an ending that would hide the outcome of an exciting event, sometimes ending with "tune in next week for the exciting continuing saga..", or something along those lines. Actor

Actor

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 and popular singing cowboy

Singing cowboy

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 of the day, Addison Randall

Addison Randall

Addison Byron Owen Randall was an American film actor, chiefly in Westerns...

, died during the making of this serial.

Plot

Mine owner Jackson Decker orders his manager to obtain miner Tom Bailey's milling machinery, no matter what the cost. When Bailey is found murdered, suspicion naturally falls on Jackson and his manager. Jackson's son, a Canadian Mountie

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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, is directed to seek out the murderer, or murderers, and bring them to justice.

The Mountie joins forces with a French-Canadian policeman, Bailey's beautiful daughter, and a phony palm reader to learn the truth. The foursome soon discover that there is a secret gold mine, a double crossing casino

Casino

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 owner, and a forger at the bottom of the crime.

Cast

• George Dolenz
  George Dolenz
  George Dolenz was an American film actor born in Trieste , in the city's Slovene community.-Biography:...
  
   as Constable "Frenchy" Moselle
• Bill Kennedy
  Bill Kennedy (actor)
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   as Corporal J. Wayne Decker
• Daun Kennedy as June Bailey
• Paul E. Burns as "Latitude" Bucket
• Milburn Stone
  Milburn Stone
  Milburn Stone was an American television actor, a nephew of Broadway comedian Fred Stone and the son of a shopkeeper, best known for his role as "Doc" on the CBS western series Gunsmoke. He also played a doctor, CDR Blake, in the 1943 film Gung Ho!.Stone was born in Burrton in Harvey County in...
  
   as Brad Taggart
• Robert Armstrong
  Robert Armstrong (actor)
  Robert Armstrong was an American film actor best remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures. He uttered the famous exit quote, "'Twas beauty killed the beast," at the film's end...
  
   as Jonathan Price
• Danny Morton as Eddie "Dancer" Clare, Price's dealer
• Addison Richards
  Addison Richards
  Addison Richards was an American film actor. He appeared in over 300 films between 1933 and 1964. He died from a heart attack...
  
   as Jackson Decker
• Tom Fadden as Lode MacKenzie
• Joe Haworth as Bunker
• Helen Bennett as Dillie Clark aka Madame Mysterioso
• Joseph Crehan
  Joseph Crehan
  Joseph Crehan was an American film actor. He appeared in over 300 films between 1916 and 1965.He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in Hollywood, California from a stroke.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Sergeant Nelson
• Selmer Jackson as Superintendent MacDonald
• Daral Hudson as Sergeant Ladue
• George Lloyd
  George Lloyd (actor)
  George Lloyd was an American character actor. Born in Edinburg, Illinois, Lloyd appeared in over 270 films between 1932 and 1956.-Career:...
  
   as Kent

Critical reception

Cline claims that The Royal Mounted Rides Again is "pretty close to being the weakest chapter film [Universal] ever made." An excellent cast was wasted and the story "wandered aimlessly [with] almost no suspense."

Chapter titles

1. Canaska [sic
   Sic
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   ] Gold
2. The Avalanche Trap
3. River on Fire
4. Skyline Target
5. Murder Toboggan
6. Ore car Accident
7. Buckboard Runaway
8. Thundering Water
9. Dead Men for Decoys
10. Derringer Death
11. Night Trail Danger
12. Twenty Dollar Double Cross
13. Flaming Showdown

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