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 hero The Black Ghost. Dorothy Gulliver was the leading female star. The total running time of the serial is 213 minutes.

This serial was also released theatrically in 1932 as a 70-minute feature version called The Black Ghost.

Plot

The outlaw "Tiger" Morris tries to drive settlers off their land in order to acquire the local gold deposits. A crusading newspaper editor, Tom Kirby, becomes the masked vigilante called The Black Ghost to stop him. The gimmick in this serial is that Chaney is a white man who disguises himself as a Hispanic Zorro-like vigilante, without covering his face (he simply applies a mustache and a hat), and yet his close friends don't ever seem to recognize that he is the Black Ghost. There are two villains in the serial, "Tiger" Morris and a warlike Indian chief nmed Pawnee Blood.

Cast

Production

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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