''The Iron Rider'' is a 1920 American
silent Western
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Places
*Western, Nebraska, a village in the US
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*Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
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film directed by
Scott R. Dunlap
Scott R. Dunlap (June 20, 1892 – March 30, 1970) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor.
Dunlap was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1892 and entered the film business in 1915. He produced 70 films between 1937 and ...
and starring
William Russell,
Vola Vale
Vola Vale (born Vola Smith; February 12, 1897 – October 17, 1970) was a silent film actress.
Early career
Vale was born in Buffalo, New York and educated in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Her high school friends in Rochester, New York, where she w ...
and
Clark Comstock
Clark Comstock (1862–1934) was an American film actor of the silent and early sound era. He appeared in around 50 films and serials between 1915 and 1930, many of them westerns.Katchmer p.69
Selected filmography
* ''The Westerners'' (1919)
* ...
.
[Solomon p.267]
Cast
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William Russell asLarry Lannigan
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Vola Vale
Vola Vale (born Vola Smith; February 12, 1897 – October 17, 1970) was a silent film actress.
Early career
Vale was born in Buffalo, New York and educated in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Her high school friends in Rochester, New York, where she w ...
as Mera Donovan
*
Clark Comstock
Clark Comstock (1862–1934) was an American film actor of the silent and early sound era. He appeared in around 50 films and serials between 1915 and 1930, many of them westerns.Katchmer p.69
Selected filmography
* ''The Westerners'' (1919)
* ...
as John Thornton
*
Arthur Morrison
Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 – 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for realistic novels, for stories about working-class life in the East End of London, and for detective stories featuring a specific detecti ...
as Jim Mason
*
Wadsworth Harris
Wadsworth Harris (October 9, 1864 – November 1, 1942) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1911 and 1936. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Los Angeles, California from pneumon ...
as Sheriff Donovan
*
George Nichols as John Lannigan
References
Bibliography
* Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011.
External links
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1920 films
1920 Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Scott R. Dunlap
Fox Film films
Silent American Western (genre) films
1920s English-language films
1920s American films
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