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The Mysterious Rider
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5957 feet
Directed by John Waters

Cast: Jack Holt [Bent Wade], Betty Jewel [Dorothy King], Charles Sellon [Cliff Harkness], David Torrence [Mark King], Tom Kennedy [Lem Spooner] Guy Oliver [Jack Wilson], Albert Hart [the sheriff], Ivan Christie [Tom Saunders], Arthur Hoyt [King’s secretary]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Associate producer, B.P. Schulberg. Scenario by Fred Myton and Paul Gangelin, from the novel The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey. Cinematography by C. Edgar Schoenbaum. Intertitles written by Alfred Hustwick. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Released 5 March 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as The Mysterious Rider (1921). The novel was subsequently filmed as The Mysterious Rider (1933). / Silent film.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 October 2024.

References: Website-AFI.