Vigilantes Are Coming

VCI's DVD: better image, but print source still a problem
"The Vigilantes are Coming" is a 12-chapter serial, released by Republic Pictures in their first year, 1936, directed by Mack V. Wright and Ray Taylor. The screenplay is by John Rathmell, Maurice Geraghty and Winston Miller, the story by Maurice Geraghty and Leslie Swabacker.

General Jason Burr (Fred Kohler) has discovered gold, in 1840's California, and plans to become dictator, negotiating with Count Raspinoff (Robert Warwick), special emissary of the Tsar, to provide military support and make California a Russian colony. Don Loring (Robert Livingston), returning home after guiding Captain Fremont (Ray Corrigan) on his expedition to the Pacific Northwest, finds his father and brother have been killed, and Sonoma Valley oppressed by Burr, who has been abducting people as slaves to operate his gold mine. With help from Father Jose (William Farnum) of the local mission, Don becomes "The Eagle," masked vigilante who conceals his true identity by posing as a meek organist...





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