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The Headless Rider

The Headless Rider

19735.71h 40m

Overview

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...

Directed by Vladimir Vaynshtok
Written by Pavel Finn, Thomas Mayne Reid, Vladimir Vaynshtok
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Top Cast

Oleg Vidov

Oleg Vidov

Morris Gerald

Ludmila Savelyeva

Ludmila Savelyeva

Louisa Poindexter

Eslinda Núñez

Eslinda Núñez

Isidora Kovarubio De Los-L'yanos

Enrique Santisteban

Enrique Santisteban

El Koyot

Alejandro Lugo

Alejandro Lugo

Poyndekster

Aarne Üksküla

Aarne Üksküla

Cassius Calhoun

Ivan Petrov

Ivan Petrov

Zeb Stamp

Alfonso Godínez

Alfonso Godínez

Plato

Rolando Diaz Reyes

Rolando Diaz Reyes

major

Aleksandr Milokostyj

Aleksandr Milokostyj

Henry Poindexter

Themes & Keywords

based on novel or bookmurder casewestern

About The Headless Rider

The Headless Rider is a romance, adventure, western film released in 1973 exploring themes of based on novel or book, murder case, western. Directed by Vladimir Vaynshtok, it stars Oleg Vidov, Ludmila Savelyeva, Eslinda Núñez. 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...

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