The Mystery Rider

The Mystery Rider

NR 1928 · 380 min · ★ 9.0 · Western

Silent cowboy Western serial.

Directed by Robert J. Horner · Written by Robert J. Horner

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Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher doesn't have enough money to pay the toll, he winds up dead. A local rancher, Bill Bowers, investigates the killing, but his neighbor and rival Molly Spellman decides to take her cattle around the pass instead of through it to avoid the toll. The gangsters kidnap her, and Bill gathers the other ranchers in the area for a final showdown with the gang.
Ridin' WildRidin' Wild · 1925
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MovieWestern
Like many Easterners who suffer from consumption, "The White Plague," Jim Warren goes to Arizona for the curative powers of its dry climate. When he arrives in Tucson, though, he cannot find a room because he is a 'lunger.' Ill and despondent, Jim is befriended by Betty Blake, the daughter of rancher and town sheriff Frank Blake, who suggests that he try the open desert. Wandering the desert, Jim happens upon members of the gang headed by Scar-face Jordon, a notorious rustler.
The Phantom CowboyThe Phantom Cowboy · 1935
The Phantom Cowboy
10.01935
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Bill Collins has a look alike the Phantom who beats Houston robbery plan. However the Phantom is shot by Houston’s men. Bill finding him dying isn’t aware that Houston is just about the get him too…
The White OutlawThe White Outlaw · 1929
The White Outlaw
10.01929
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Wild West WhoopeeWild West Whoopee · 1931
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A young cowboy is in love with the ranch owner's daughter. When they learn that the girl's father plans to send her to a nearby city to live with her aunt, the two decide to elope. The girl is not surprised when she is kidnapped from the stagecoach because she believes that her fiance planned the whole thing. Actually, it is the cowboy's rival who has arranged her kidnapping.
Border GunsBorder Guns · 1934
Border Guns
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MovieWestern
A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.
The Champion LiarThe Champion Liar · 1920
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A breezy young Westerner loves to talk and tells some "whoppers" for humorous purposes. This get him into trouble with his girl, but he wins her back after she has tried vainly to fall in love with an honest but less entertaining fellow.
Tex Takes a HolidayTex Takes a Holiday · 1932
Tex Takes a Holiday
8.01932
MovieDramaWestern
A cowboy finds himself blamed for a series of crimes he didn't commit, so he sets out to find the real criminal.
The Pell Street MysteryThe Pell Street Mystery · 1924
The Pell Street Mystery
8.01924
MovieMystery
The police find Queenie Ross murdered. Tip O'Neil, a newspaper reporter, is detailed to solve the mystery.
Across the PlainsAcross the Plains · 1928
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Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds herself selling drinks and dancing with drunk cowboys in the saloon. She meets Jim Blake, the rough-and-ready foreman of the Bar-X Ranch and they fall in love. And face more than a few problems on the way to getting married.
The Smilin' KidThe Smilin' Kid · 1920
The Smilin' Kid
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Fighters of the SaddleFighters of the Saddle · 1929
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7.01929
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Henry Weatherby is buying up ranch land to sell as right of way for a new road. When he sends his son Dick and his nephew Pete to kick the Wayne's off their ranch, Dick rebels and joins the Wayne's in their fight against his father.
The Border MenaceThe Border Menace · 1934
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Ranger Bill Williams goes to prison to get information on Chuck Adams. Then a fake posse chase gets him invited into Adams' gang. But just as he learns who Adams' boss is and is about to make his move, his cell mate who escaped from prison returns to identify him.
The Apache Kid's EscapeThe Apache Kid's Escape · 1930
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A former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.
Pueblo TerrorPueblo Terror · 1931
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Bill Sommers returns to find his ranch threatened by a corrupt, water-stealing landowner, John Weston. Weston’s foreman, Ballon, commits murder, frames Bill, and forces him to fight to clear his name.
45 Calibre Echo45 Calibre Echo · 1932
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A cowhand and his sidekick come to the Texas border country looking for the man who had lured the cowhand's sister in bondage in Mexico. But the man doesn't want to be found and has hired some gunmen to see that he isn't.

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