| The Red Rider | |
| Director: | Clifford Smith |
| Starring: | Jack Hoxie Mary McAllister Jack Pratt |
| Cinematography: | Harry Neumann |
| Studio: | Universal Pictures |
| Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
| Runtime: | 5 reels |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent English intertitles |
The Red Rider is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith.[1] It is not known whether the film currently survives.[2]
Indian chief White Elk prevents Chief Black Panther from looting a train. He is engaged to an Indian princess but falls in love with a white girl. White Elk gets tricked into signing away his tribe's lands, and is also nearly murdered in the process, but he escapes. He is told that he is not Indian, but rather a white person who was adopted by Native Americans. The white girl White Elk is in love with is kidnapped by Indians, and placed into a canoe that is to go over a waterfall. White Elk saves her, and the Indian princess sacrifices herself in the process. White Elk and the white girl then decide to marry.