Perils of the Royal Mounted (coming soon)
Mountie sergeant and his three constables find themselves facing multiple perils at the hands of an outlaw gang which, aided by a corrupt Indian medicine man and his followers, have brought a halt to construction of a key railroad line through the Canadian Northwest.
Perils of the Royal Mounted (1942) was the 18th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It starred Robert Kellard (aka Robert Stevens) as the hero, Sgt. Mack MacLane of the Royal Mounties, and Kenneth MacDonald as Mort Ramsome, the head villain. It also co-starred Nell O’Day, Iron Eyes Cody, Kermit Maynard and I. Stanford Jolley.
Plot
The trading post of Sitkawan, Canada is taken by surprise when an Indian tribe attacks and massacres the settlers aboard a fur-bearing wagon train. Sergeant MacLane of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is assigned to investigate the case. MacLane soon realises that the attackers were led by Mort Ransome, a nasty renegade, who had been conspiring with Black Bear, medicine man of the tribe, to incite the heretofore friendly Indians for his own gain. He also learns that two white renegades have kidnapped Diana Blake, daughter of the local post factor, and saves her from a runaway wagon just before it plunges over a cliff. Perils of the Royal Mounted also features stereotypically Northern genre elements including fur trappers, lumberjacks, trading posts, rebellious Indian braves, forest fires, avalanches, and a wide range of dangerous wildlife.
Cast
Robert Stevens (aka Robert Kellard) as Sgt. Mack MacLane, RCMP
Nell O’Day as Diane Blake
Kenneth MacDonald as Mort Ransome
Herbert Rawlinson as Richard Winton
John Elliott as Factor J. L. Blake
Richard Fiske as Constable Brady
Forrest Taylor as Preacher Hinsdale
George Chesebro as Gaspard, chief thug
Jack Ingram as Baptiste, chief thug
I. Stanford Jolley as Pierre, thug
Al Ferguson as Mike, thug
Charles King as Curly, thug
Bud Osborne as Jake, thug
Justin Cousson as Ricky, Radio operator
Nick Thompson as Black Bear, medicine man
Art Miles as Chief Flying Cloud
Richard Vallin as Little Wolf
Hank Bell as Martin, trapper-townsman
Tom London as Gaynor, trapper-townsman
Kermit Maynard as Constable Collins
Stanley Price as Hood, phony Mountie thug
Harry Harvey as Denny Burke, telegrapher
Ed Cassidy as Jenson, crooked warehouseman
Kenneth Harlan as John Craig, phony commissioner
C. Montague Shaw as Commissioner Phillips
Ted Adams as Henchman
Robert Barron as Henchman
Iron Eyes Cody as Indian, pursuit party leader
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