A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released.
This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands full holding it from the clutches of various conniving bad guys.
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
William Desmond plays Jim Davis, a secret service agent by day and masked avenger by night. Ethlyne Clair provided feminine appeal, while Bud Osborne, as the notorious Butch Bradley, and a young Boris Karloff took care of the villainy.
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor.
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Heroes of the West (1932) Chapter 5 The Holdup
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are hampered by crooks and Indians on the warpath. Directed by Ray Taylor Cast Noah beery Jr. as Noah Blaine ...
Heroes of the West (1932) Chapter 4 A Shot from the Dark
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are hampered by crooks and Indians on the warpath. Directed by Ray Taylor Cast Noah beery Jr. as Noah Blaine ...
Heroes of the West (1932) Chapter 6 Captured by Indians
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are hampered by crooks and Indians on the warpath. Directed by Ray Taylor Cast Noah beery Jr. as Noah Blaine ...
Heroes of the West (1932) Chapter 7 Flaming Arrows
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are hampered by crooks and Indians on the warpath. Directed by Ray Taylor Cast Noah Beery Jr. as Noah Blaine ...
Heroes of the West (1932) Chapter 8 Frontier Justice
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are hampered by crooks and Indians on the warpath. Directed by Ray Taylor Cast Noah Beery Jr. as Noah Blaine ...
Serial 1932 Heroes of the West Chapter 12 of 12 End of the Trail
John Blaine – helped by his teenaged son and daughter Noah and Ann – work to build a section of a transcontinental railroad through the heart of the wild and .
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