Overview

Although ostensibly the grand-son of the legendary hero, Clayton Moore's Ken Mason is little more than a cowboy in a black mask in this 12 chapter Republic serial. Mason, the head of the telegraph line work crew, assumes his ancestor's trade-mark mask (but not whip) in order to prevent a local czar (Roy Barcroft) from sabotaging the burgeoning telegraph line. Pamela Blake, a brunette starlet formerly known as Adele Pearce, played Mason's imperiled girlfriend, and the serial also benefitted from the usual competent work of Republic's great stunt-performers, including Dale van Sickel, Tom Steele, Eddie Parker, and Joe Yrigoyen.

Genres

Cast

Clayton Moore

Ken Mason

Pamela Blake

Rita White

Roy Barcroft

Hank Kilgore

George J. Lewis

Moccasin

Gene Roth

George Crane

John Crawford

Agent Mulvaney - Ch. 3, 4

I. Stanford Jolley

Paul Hobson - Ch. 6, 7

Steve Clark

Jonathan R. White - Ch. 1, 10

Steve Darrell

Marshal Ben Simpson - Ch. 8

Dale Van Sickel

Mike Hodge - Henchman

Marshall Reed

Fowler - Henchman

Frank O'Connor

Doctor - Ch. 8