Underplayed Gems

The Royal Rider (1929)

The Royal Rider poster
Directed by
Harry Joe Brown
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 07m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A Western hero rides into danger to save someone in trouble. It has music and sound effects but no spoken words.

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What happens

The Royal Rider is a 1929 American Synchronized sound Western film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by Sylvia Bernstein, Jacques Jaccard and Leslie Mason. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound process. The film stars Ken Maynard, Olive Hasbrouck, Philippe De Lacy, Theodore Lorch, Joseph Burke and Harry Semels. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 17, 1929. The film was considered to be a lost film until March 8, 2023 when a fragment totaling 35 seconds was rediscovered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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