Death Rides the Range

(1939)

58 minutes

Western

Directed by Sam Newfield

Cast:

Ken Maynard as Ken Baxter
Fay McKenzie as Letty Morgan
Ralph Peters as Panhandle
Julian Rivero as Pancho
Charles King as Joe Larkin
John Elliott as Hiram Crabtree
Willy Castello as Dr. Flotow
Sven Hugo Borg as Baron Strakoff
Michael Vallon as Dr. Wahl
Julian Madison as Jim Morgan
Kenneth Rhodes as Slim

Ken Baxter and his two pals, Pancho and Panhandle, find Professor Wahl, who has been injured and is wandering on the range. They take him to Blue Mesa Trading Post, where two archaeologists, Dr. Floto and Baron Starkoff, foreign government representatives, are staying. Both want to secure control of a supply of helium gas found in an ancient Indian cave. Wahl, working for the Federal Government, is murder at the Blue Mesa. The land strip on which the cave is located is claimed by Letty and Jim Morgan, brother and sister owners of the Lazy Y Ranch. Tin Cup Ranch owner Joe Larkin hires Ken to take possession of a cabin on the Morgan land in order to gain title. Ken, an undercover G-Man, discovers a secret passageway from the cabin that leads to the cave and discovers the helium, and also that Larkin is working with Starkoff.