White Eagle

White Eagle (1941)

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Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western, White Eagle was made into a serial nine years later, again starring Jones in the title role, a (supposedly) Native American Pony Express Rider defending his people against a gang of evil Whites.

Date of release
1941-01-31
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
4h 50m
Genres
Western
Director
James W. Horne

Casting

Interesting facts

White Eagle (1941), starring Buck Jones, is the eighth serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on Columbia's 1932 Buck Jones Western feature, also called White Eagle.

Production

Producer Larry Darmour hired Buck Jones in May 1940 to star in a serial remake of Jones's 1932 feature. Originally scheduled to start filming in November 1940 at the Darmour studio; White Eagle had been postponed while Buck Jones recovered from a bout with influenza. He returned to work in late December.

Darmour used the 1932 White Eagle feature as both a reference print and as source material. In a few scenes Jones was costumed and made up to match his appearance in the older film, so that scenes from the feature could be used in the serial.

Director James W. Horne made serials in the silent-film days, but had spent most of his later career as a comedy director, principally with Laurel and Hardy. Larry Darmour put Horne in complete charge of the Columbia serials, and Horne freely indulged his sense of humor by encouraging his actors to play the action straight during the first three chapters -- these would sell the serial to theater owners -- and then exaggerate their portrayals late…

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