Perils of the Royal Mounted (1942) was the 18th serial

Serial (film)

Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials, Film serials or Chapter plays, were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film. They were related to pulp magazine serialized fiction...

 released by Columbia Pictures

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Plot

This serial shows as the trading post of Sitkawan, Canada is taken by surprise when an Indian tribe attack and massacre the settlers aboard a fur-bearing wagon train. Sergeant MacLane of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...

 is assigned to investigate the case. MacLane soon realise 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 tribe 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

Northern (genre)

The Northern or Northwestern is an American and Canadian genre in literature and film made popular by the writings of Rex Beach and Zane Grey. It is similar to the Western genre but the action occurs in the Canadian North and typically features Mounties instead of, for example, cowboys or sheriffs...

 elements including trappers, lumberjacks, trading posts, rebellious braves, forest fires, avalanches, and a wide range of dangerous wildlife.

Cast

Robert Stevens Robert Kellard Robert Kellard was an American actor who appeared in over 60 films between 1937 and 1951.-Career:Kellard entered in Hollywood in 1937 in the film Annapolis Salute, directed by Christy Cabanne...	Sgt. Mack MacLane, RCMP
Nell O'Day Nell O'Day Nell O'Day was an accomplished equestrian and B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Prairie Hill, Texas, O'Day was a good looking woman in her youth, and had her first screen roles in the 1920s as a teenager.Her first starring role was in 1932 when she starred in Rackety Rax opposite...	Diane Blake
Kenneth MacDonald Kenneth MacDonald (American actor) Kenneth MacDonald was an American film actor. Born in Portland, Indiana, MacDonald made more than 220 film and television appearances between 1931 and 1970.-Career:...	Mort Ransome
Herbert Rawlinson Herbert Rawlinson Herbert Rawlinson was an English stage, film, radio, and television actor. A leading man during Hollywood's silent film era, Rawlinson transitioned to character roles after the advent of sound films. Rawlinson died of lung cancer in 1953...	Richard Winton
John Elliott	Factor J. L. Blake
Richard Fiske Richard Fiske Richard Fiske was an American film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1938 and 1942.-Career:Born Thomas Richard Potts, Fiske was born to Frank and Bernice Potts...	Constable Brady
Forrest Taylor	Preacher Hinsdale
George Chesebro George Chesebro George Chesebro was an American film actor. He appeared in over 400 films between 1915 and 1954, beginning in two reelers starring Texas Guinan.He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California....	Gaspard, chief thug
Jack Ingram Jack Ingram (actor) Jack Ingram was an American film actor. He appeared in over 300 films between 1935 and 1966, according to the Internet Movie Data Base.He was born in Illinois, and died in Canoga Park, California of a heart attack...	Baptiste, chief thug
I. Stanford Jolley I. Stanford Jolley Isaac Stanford Jolley, Sr., known as I. Stanford Jolley was a prolific American character actor of film and television, primarily in western roles as cowboys, law-enforcement officers, or villains...	Pierre, thug
Al Ferguson Al Ferguson Al Ferguson was an Irish-born American film actor. He appeared in nearly 300 films between 1912 and 1956.He was born in County Wexford, Ireland and died in Long Island, New York.-Selected filmography:...	Mike, thug
Charles King	Curly, thug
Bud Osborne Bud Osborne Bud Osborne was an American film actor. He appeared in over 600 films and television programs between 1912 and 1963.Osborne was born in Knox County, Texas, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack...	Jake, thug
Nick Thompson	Black Bear, medicine man
Art Miles	Chief Flying Cloud
Richard Vallin Rick Vallin Rick Vallin was an actor who appeared in over 150 films between 1938 and 1966.Born Eric Efron in Russia, Vallin came to America while still young. He started his Hollywood career with an uncredited part in the film Freshman Year...	Little Wolf
Hank Bell Hank Bell Hank Bell was an American film actor. He appeared in 371 films between 1920 and 1952.He was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...	Martin, trapper-townsman
Tom London Tom London Tom London was an American actor who, according to "The Guinness Book of Movie Records," is credited with appearing in the most movies in the history of Hollywood...	Gaynor, trapper-townsman
Kermit Maynard Kermit Maynard Kermit Maynard was an American actor and stuntman. He appeared in 280 films between 1927 and 1962. He was a younger brother of actor Ken Maynard. He was born in Vevay, Indiana, and died in North Hollywood, California, from a heart attack. He is interred at Valhalla Memorial Park...	Constable Collins
Stanley Price Stanley Price Stanley Price was an American film supporting actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1922 and 1956. He was born in Kansas, United States.-Career:...	Hood, phony Mountie thug
Harry Harvey Harry Harvey (actor) Harry Harvey was an American actor.- Career :Born in Indian Territory, U.S.. Was a film character actor, he has more 300 appeared in television series and movies...	Denny Burke, telegrapher
Ed Cassidy	Jenson, crooked warehouseman
Kenneth Harlan Kenneth Harlan Kenneth Harlan was an American leading man of the silent film era, playing mostly romantic leads or adventurer types.-Career:...	John Craig, phony commissioner
C. Montague Shaw C. Montague Shaw Charles Montague Shaw was an Australian character actor, often appearing in small supporting parts in more than 150 films....	Commissioner Phillips
Ted Adams Ted Adams (actor) Ted Adams was an American film actor. He appeared in nearly two hundred films between 1926 and 1952.He was born in New York City, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...	Henchman
Robert Barron	Henchman
Iron Eyes Cody Iron Eyes Cody Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor. He frequently portrayed American Indians in Hollywood films. In 1995, Cody was honored by the American Indian community for his work publicizing the plight of Native Americans, including his acting in films...	Indian, pursuit party leader

Chapter titles

1. The Totum[sic
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   ] Talks
2. The Night Raiders
3. The Water God's Revenge
4. Beware, the Vigilantes
5. The Masked Mountie
6. Underwater Gold
7. Bridge to the Sky
8. Lost in the Mine
9. Into the Trap
10. Betrayed by Law
11. Blazing Beacons
12. The Mounties' Last Chance
13. Painted White Man
14. Burned at the Stake
15. The Mountie Gets His Man

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Other versions

• This serial was released in Latin America in March of 1943, under the title Los Valientes de la Guardia, in English with Spanish subtitles.