Winners of the West (1940 serial)
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For the silent serial of the same name, see Winners of the West (1921 serial).
Winners of the West is a 1940 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor. It stars Dick Foran and Anne Nagel in a plot about the construction of a railroad and a local ganglord who opposes it. It was Universal's 115th serial release (the 47th with sound).
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Directed by | Ford Beebe Ray Taylor |
Written by | George H. Plympton Basil Dickey Charles R. Condon |
Produced by | Henry MacRae |
Starring | Dick Foran Anne Nagel Tom Fadden James Craig Harry Woods Charles Stevens |
Cinematography | Jerome Ash John Hickson William A. Sickner |
Edited by | Saul A. Goodkind (supervising) Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
Music by | Hans J. Salter |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 13 chapters (247 min) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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The studio had used the name for an earlier silent serial but there are no plot similarities between the two versions. Columbia's Roar of the Iron Horse is very similar to this serial, however, and the writer George H. Plympton worked on both.