The Headless Rider

The Headless Rider

1973 · 100 min · ★ 5.9 · Romance, Adventure, Western

The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Corvo, falls in love with a poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. The night their secret rendezvous happens, her brother Henry disappears. Suspicion in murder falls on Gerald, who was found covered in blood, with signs of struggle on the body and on Henry's cloak. One more minute, and an angry crowd would have Gerald lynched, but then the mysterious Headless Horseman appears...

Directed by Vladimir Vaynshtok · Written by Pavel Finn

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Oleg Vidov Morris Gerald
Ludmila Savelyeva Louisa Poindexter
Eslinda Núñez Isidora Kovarubio De Los-L'yanos
Enrique Santisteban El Koyot
Alejandro Lugo Poyndekster
Aarne Üksküla Cassius Calhoun
Ivan Petrov Zeb Stamp
Alfonso Godínez Plato
Rolando Diaz Reyes major
Aleksandr Milokostyj Henry Poindexter
Platon Leslie judge
Viktor Belovolskiy

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