''The Mysterious Rider'' is a 1927 American silent

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film directed by

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and written by Paul Gangelin,

Zane Grey Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontie ...

, Alfred Hustwick, and

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. The film stars Jack Holt, Betty Jewel,

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, David Torrence,

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, and Al Hart. The film was released on March 5, 1927, by

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Plot

Based on the

novel of the same name, ''The Mysterious Rider'' centers around Bent Wade ( Jack Holt), a mysterious masked rider who fights to save the homesteads of a colony of desert ranchers from illegal seizure. He eventually falls in love with Dorothy King ( Betty Jewel), the daughter of a local financier, after saving her from quicksand.

Cast

* Jack Holt as Bent Wade * Betty Jewel as Dorothy King *

as Cliff Harkness * David Torrence as Mark King *

as Lem Spooner *

as Jack Wilson * Al Hart as Sheriff * Ivan Christy as Tom Saunders *

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as King's Secretary

Preservation

With no prints of ''The Mysterious Rider'' located in any film archives, it is a

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.''The Mysterious Rider'' at Lost Film Files: ''Lost Paramount Pictures - 1927''
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mysterious Rider, The 1927 films 1927 Western (genre) films Paramount Pictures films Films directed by John Waters (director born 1893) Films based on works by Zane Grey American black-and-white films English-language Western (genre) films Lost American Western (genre) films 1927 lost films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films