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The Mystery Rider (1928)

The Mystery Rider poster
Directed by
Robert J. Horner
Genre
serial film
Country
United States
Runtime
6h 20m
Rated
NR
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent Western serial from 1928. It follows a hero named William Desmond in a series of adventures. The film is now considered lost.

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What happens

The Mystery Rider is a lost 1928 American silent Western film serial directed by Robert J. Horner and starring William Desmond. Horner produced and released through Universal Pictures. AFI has the film listed as a five-reel feature (a possible whittled-down five-reel version of the serial). A trailer for the film (or its episodes) survives in the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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