The Last Frontier (serial)


The Last Frontier is an American Pre-Code 12-chapter serial, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1932. The story was based on the novel of the same name by Courtney Ryley Cooper.
The serial starred Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Zorro-esque hero The Black Ghost. Dorothy Gulliver was the leading female star. The total running time of the serial is 213 minutes.

Plot

The outlaw "Tiger" Morris attempts to drive settlers off their land in order to acquire the local gold deposits. A crusading newspaper editor, Tom Kirby, becomes the masked vigilante, The Black Ghost, to stop him.

Cast

The Last Frontier was RKO's only serial.

Chapter titles

  1. The Black Ghost Rides
  2. The Thundering Herd
  3. The Black Ghost Strikes
  4. The Fatal Shot
  5. Clutching Sands
  6. The Terror Trail
  7. Doomed
  8. Facing Death
  9. Thundering Doom
  10. The Life Line
  11. Driving Danger
  12. The Black Ghost's Last Ride
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