''The Mounted Stranger'' is a 1930 American pre-Code Western film. It was a remake of ''

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River ''The Ridin' Kid from Powder River'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Hoot Gibson. It was based on a novel by Henry Herbert Knibbs and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Plot As descr ...

'' (1924), which was an adaptation of Henry Herbert Knibbs's novel of the same name.

Plot

Pete Ainslee locates Steve Gary, who killed Ainslee's father when Ainslee was a child and a witness to the murder. The adult Ainslee wounds Gary in a gunfight, but he becomes the hunted one after Gary recovers.

Cast

Hoot Gibson Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson (August 6, 1892 – August 23, 1962) was an American rodeo champion, film actor, film director, and producer. While acting and stunt work began as a sideline to Gibson's focus on rodeo, he successfully transitione ...

as Pete Ainslee aka The Ridin' Kid *Buddy Hunter as Pete as a boy *Milton Brown as 'Pop' Ainslee * Fred Burns as Steve Gary *

Jim Corey James Warren Corey (October 19, 1883 – January 10, 1956) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1914 and 1948. He was born in Nebraska and died in Los Angeles, California. His grave is located at Valhalla Memori ...

as 'White-Eye' * Francis Ford as 'Spider' Coy *Walter Patterson as Spider's lookout * Francelia Billington as Mrs. Coy * Louise Lorraine as Bonita Coy

Production

''The Mounted Stranger'' was written and directed by

Arthur Rosson Arthur Henry Rosson (24 August 1886 – 17 June 1960) was an English film director. From 1917 to 1948, Rosson directed 61 feature films (including co-direction of ''Red River (1948 film), Red River''). He also worked on many major films as a ...

. It was released on February 8, 1930, by

Universal Pictures Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Ameri ...

Harry Neumann Harry C. Neumann (sometimes billed as Harry Neuman, Harry Newman, or Harry Newmann; February 11, 1891 – January 14, 1971) of Chicago, Illinois, was a Hollywood cinematographer whose career spanned over forty years, including work on some 350 p ...

was the cinematographer, and Gibson was the producer. Henry H. Knibbs was the author, and Gilmore Walker was the editor. The film's sets were designed by

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

David S. Garber David S. Garber (1898–1984) was an American art director.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.22 He designed the sets for more than sixty film productions between 1926 and 1957, a large number of them western film, westerns. Selected filmography * ''Fighting ...

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* 1930 films 1930s English-language films American Western (genre) films 1930 Western (genre) films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Arthur Rosson American black-and-white films 1930s American films {{1930s-Western-film-stub