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The Pony Express (1925)

The Pony Express poster
Directed by
James Cruze
Genre
Western film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of riders work to deliver mail across the American frontier while facing outlaws and harsh conditions. The film follows several characters whose lives intersect around the mail route.

silent-eraold-westhistoricaladventurousnostalgicmelodramaticbroadaction-packed

What happens

The Pony Express is a 1925 American silent Western film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife, Betty Compson, along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft. The novel of the same name by Henry James Forman and Walter Woods was written concurrently with the film and they were released at the same time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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