Product Details

• Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Betsy King Ross, Noah Beery, Noah Beery Jr., Tully Marshall
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Vci Video
• VHS Release Date: June 25, 2002
• Run Time: 250 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000053SNF
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,282 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kit and a kaboodle of gold, September 4, 2007

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This review is from: Fighting With Kit Carson - 12 chapter movie serial (DVD)

MASCOT PICTURES made serials under its own name from 1926 to 1935. After that, MASCOT and four other lesser Poverty Row studios were combined under the REPUBLIC PICTURES banner.

THE STORY of KIT CARSON:
The Mystery Riders are after the gold being transported in a pack train that Kit Carson is escorting.

CAST:
Johnny Mack Brown - Kit Carson
Betsy King Ross - Joan Fargo, aka Johnny Fargo
Noah Beery - Cyrus Kraft
Noah Beery Jr. - Nakomas
Tully Marshall - Jim Bridge [Chs. 1-2]
Edmund Breese - Matt Fargo [Chs. 1-7, 12]
Lane Chandler - Army Sergeant [Chs. 10-12]

also:
Yakima Canutt - Mystery Rider (uncredited)
Iron Eyes Cody - Cheyenne Rider [Chs. 1, 4] (uncredited)
William Farnum - Elliott [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
William Witney - Settler/Indian/Trooper (uncredited)

CHAPTERS:
1. The Mystery Riders
2. The White Chief
3. Hidden Gold
4. The Silent Doom
5. Murder Will Out
6. The Secret of Iron Mountain
7. The Law of the Lawless
8. Red Phantoms
9. The Invisible Enemy
10. Midnight Magic
11. Unmasked
12. The Trail To Glory

CARSON trivia:

Lane Chandler was a silent screen star who slipped into supporting roles in 'B' movies from the early 1930s on.

In his 35-year career (beginning in 1914), Slim Whitaker appeared in over 340 westerns. He has a small role here.

William Witney (several minor characters) was CARSON director Colbert Clark's brother-in-law. In 1937, Witney began his second (and principal) career as a director of western serials, movies and TV shows.

Stuntman-extraordinaire Yakima Canutt starred in a few silent-era westerns. He was also at times an assistant director, production coordinator, writer and stunt coordinator on dozens of great films. Here, Canutt is one of the Mystery Riders.

Iron Eyes Cody specialized in playing Native Americans, yet he was the son of Italian immigrant parents. Cody denied this even in court in 1996, when his heritage was challenged. Cody's most famous role was his briefest: he was the Indian who sheds a tear for a blighted American environment in "Keep America Beautiful" ads that ran from 1971 into the 1980s.

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Gene Autry appears briefly in MYSTERY MOUNTAIN (starring Ken Maynard), which is another terrific MASCOT western cliffhanger.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kit and a kaboodle of gold, September 4, 2007

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fighting With Kit Carson - 12 Chapter Movie Serial (DVD)

MASCOT PICTURES made serials under its own name from 1926 to 1935. After that, MASCOT and four other lesser Poverty Row studios were combined under the REPUBLIC PICTURES banner.

THE STORY of KIT CARSON:
The Mystery Riders are after the gold being transported in a pack train that Kit Carson is escorting.

CAST:
Johnny Mack Brown - Kit Carson
Betsy King Ross - Joan Fargo, aka Johnny Fargo
Noah Beery - Cyrus Kraft
Noah Beery Jr. - Nakomas
Tully Marshall - Jim Bridge [Chs. 1-2]
Edmund Breese - Matt Fargo [Chs. 1-7, 12]
Lane Chandler - Army Sergeant [Chs. 10-12]

also:
Yakima Canutt - Mystery Rider (uncredited)
Iron Eyes Cody - Cheyenne Rider [Chs. 1, 4] (uncredited)
William Farnum - Elliott [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
William Witney - Settler/Indian/Trooper (uncredited)

CHAPTERS:
1. The Mystery Riders
2. The White Chief
3. Hidden Gold
4. The Silent Doom
5. Murder Will Out
6. The Secret of Iron Mountain
7. The Law of the Lawless
8. Red Phantoms
9. The Invisible Enemy
10. Midnight Magic
11. Unmasked
12. The Trail To Glory

CARSON trivia:

Lane Chandler was a silent screen star who slipped into supporting roles in 'B' movies from the early 1930s on.

In his 35-year career (beginning in 1914), Slim Whitaker appeared in over 340 westerns. He has a small role here.

William Witney (several minor characters) was CARSON director Colbert Clark's brother-in-law. In 1937, Witney began his second (and principal) career as a director of western serials, movies and TV shows.

Stuntman-extraordinaire Yakima Canutt starred in a few silent-era westerns. He was also at times an assistant director, production coordinator, writer and stunt coordinator on dozens of great films. Here, Canutt is one of the Mystery Riders.

Iron Eyes Cody specialized in playing Native Americans, yet he was the son of Italian immigrant parents. Cody denied this even in court in 1996, when his heritage was challenged. Cody's most famous role was his briefest: he was the Indian who sheds a tear for a blighted American environment in "Keep America Beautiful" ads that ran from 1971 into the 1980s.

.
Gene Autry appears briefly in MYSTERY MOUNTAIN (starring Ken Maynard), which is another terrific MASCOT western cliffhanger.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good enough western serial action, July 29, 2002

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This review is from: Fighting With Kit Carson [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a Mascot serial in 12 episodes, best seen a chapter at a time like when it was released. Johnny Mack Brown is the hero, Kit Carson. The storyline doesn't claim any historical accuracy at all, but you don't expect historical accuracy in a serial. It's good. The raw action isn't as continuous as it is in the later WILD WEST DAYS. However, you have Noah Beery as the chief bad guy. You don't want to be around that rascal when he "accidentally" drops his knife.

One weird thing here: when the bad guys move one victim's dead body, you have a series of dotted lines indicating their route. Strange! I never saw that in a serial or B movie before.

This is pretty typical B western, but it moves, and should entertain western fans, and those serial fans who enjoy westerns.