Not missing a beat, Tom teamed with Universal for a trio of chapterplays. JUNGLE MYSTERY (1932) is a safari yarn with Andy Hardy's screen sister Cecilia Parker as the female interest; Tyler played a red-coated mountie sergeant with pretty Jacqueline Wells (later known as Julie Bishop) in CLANCY OF THE MOUNTED (1933); and PHANTOM OF THE AIR (1933) was a vintage airplane story whose title aptly describes the plotline. [Tidbit: both JUNGLE MYSTERY and CLANCY OF THE MOUNTED are among the dozen or so "lost serials".]
Squeezed in between these Universal cliffhangers were four sagebrush cheapies for producer Burton King and the short-lived Freuler/Monarch film production company. This quartet included THE FORTY-NINERS (1932), WHEN A MAN RIDES ALONE (1933), DEADWOOD PASS (1933) and WAR ON THE RANGE (1933).
Above and below, note the catchy phrase to lure the distributors,
theater owners and audience: "A Monarch Epic of the West"
