The Headless Rider
1973 · 100 min · Romance, Adventure, Western
The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Corvo, falls in love with a poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. The night their secret rendezvous happens, her brother Henry disappears. Suspicion in murder falls on Gerald, who was found covered in blood, with signs of struggle on the body and on Henry's cloak. One more minute, and an angry crowd would have Gerald lynched, but then the mysterious Headless Horseman appears...
- Director
- Vladimir Vaynshtok
- Writers
- Pavel Finn, Vladimir Vaynshtok, Thomas Mayne Reid
- Released
- July 25, 1973
- Language
- Russian
Cast
Oleg Vidov
Morris Gerald
Ludmila Savelyeva
Louisa Poindexter
Eslinda Núñez
Isidora Kovarubio De Los-L'yanos
Enrique Santisteban
El Koyot
Alejandro Lugo
Poyndekster
Aarne Üksküla
Cassius Calhoun
Ivan Petrov
Zeb Stamp
Alfonso Godínez
Plato
Rolando Diaz Reyes
major
Aleksandr Milokostyj
Henry Poindexter
Platon Leslie
judge
Viktor Belovolskiy
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