Overland with Kit Carson

For a serial with a similar title, see Fighting with Kit Carson.

Overland with Kit Carson
Directed by	Norman Deming Sam Nelson
Produced by	Jack Fier
Written by	Joseph F. Poland Morgan B. Cox Ned Dandy (story/screenplay)
Starring	Bill Elliott Iris Meredith Richard Fiske Bobby Clack
Music by	Mischa Bakaleinikoff Sidney Cutner
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline (B&W)
Distributed by	USA Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	August 21, 1939 (1939-08-21)
Running time	15 episodes 310 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Overland with Kit Carson (1939) was the eighth serial released by Columbia Pictures.

Plot

Overland with Kit Carson is constructed upon a seemingly simple premise. Old Western settlers are being driven off their homesteads and ranches by a combination of Indian assaults and harassing attacks by bands of mysterious outlaws. Then, the US government sends out famed Indian scout Kit Carson and army officer David Brent to investigate the facts, and Carson discovers that a mysterious villain known only as Pegleg, who enjoys planning his misdeeds as much as carrying them out, controls an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders and is using them and the Indians to drive out the settlers so he can establish his own empire. By 1939, film-goers knew exactly what to expect from a western serial: a clean-cut, self-assured hero facing down a good-for-nothing villain in a tireless pursuit, the menacing Indians and gun-toting bad guys, the moral soldier and the pretty girl, a reckless boy, lots of action, the climactic final gunfight, and not much in the way of thematic depth.

Cast

Bill Elliott	Kit Carson
Iris Meredith	Carmelita González
Richard Fiske	Lt. David Brent
Bobby Clack	Andy Gardner
Trevor Bardette	Trapper Mitchell
LeRoy Mason	Baxter
Olin Francis	Pierre
James Craig	Tennessee
Francis Sayles	Dr. Parker
Kenneth MacDonald	Winchester
Dick Curtis	Drake
Richard Botiller	Natchez
Hal Taliaferro	Jim Stewart
John Tyrrell	Capt. Gilbert
Kenne Duncan	Trapper

Production

Scenes from Overland with Kit Carson were used as stock footage for Blazing the Overland Trail.^[1]

Chapter titles

1. Doomed Men
2. Condemned to Die
3. The Fight for Life
4. The Ride of Terror
5. The Path of Doom
6. Rendezvous with Death
7. The Killer-Stallion
8. The Devil's Nest
9. Blazing Peril
10. The Black Raiders
11. Foiled
12. The Warning
13. Terror in the Night
14. Crumbling Walls
15. Unmasked

_Source:^[2]

References

1. ^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut. "12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. pp. 320. ISBN 9780713000979. 
2. ^ Cline, William C.. "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 225. ISBN 078640471X. 

External links

• Overland with Kit Carson at AllRovi
• Cinefania.com
• Overland with Kit Carson at the Internet Movie Database