| The Mysterious Rider | |
| Director: | John Waters |
| Producer: | Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor |
| Screenplay: | Paul Gangelin Alfred Hustwick Fred Myton |
| Starring: | Jack Holt Betty Jewel Charles Sellon |
| Cinematography: | Charles Edgar Schoenbaum |
| Studio: | Famous Players–Lasky Corporation |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 65 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Mysterious Rider is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by John Waters and written by Paul Gangelin, Zane Grey, Alfred Hustwick, and Fred Myton. The film stars Jack Holt, Betty Jewel, Charles Sellon, David Torrence, Tom Kennedy, Guy Oliver, and Al Hart. The film was released on March 5, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.[1] [2]
Based on the Zane Grey 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.[3] [4]
With no prints of The Mysterious Rider located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.[6]