Rip Roaring Riley

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Rip Roaring Riley
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Directed by Elmer Clifton
Written byHomer King Gordon
George Jeske
Produced by C.C. Burr
Starring Lloyd Hughes
Marion Burns
Grant Withers
CinematographyIrvin Akers
Edited by Tony Martinelli
Production
company
C.C. Burr Productions
Distributed by Puritan Pictures
Release date
  • October 24, 1935 (1935-10-24)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language English

Rip Roaring Riley is a 1935 American action film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Elmer Clifton, with Lloyd Hughes, Marion Burns and Grant Withers. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Vin Taylor. A second feature, it was released in America by Puritan Pictures and in Britain by Pathé Pictures under the alternative title The Mystery of Diamond Island.

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Plot

A federal agent manages to crash land on Diamond Island, where the government suspects that Major Gray is developing a new poison gas, by forcing Professor Baker and his daughter Anne to work for him.

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  1. Langman p.127

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