The Desert Rider (1929)
Directed by Nick Grinde
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Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein
Colonel Tim McCoy, M-G-M's only series Western star, played a Pony Express rider in this well-produced but otherwise average silent Western. In the course of his duties, McCoy gets acquainted with a beautiful Spanish landowner (Raquel Torres), whose property is besieged by a gang of land grabbers headed by the always nefarious Harry Woods. The studio released McCoy from his contract at the advent of sound and despite the solid box-office results of the McCoy series never again involved itself with the B-Western genre.
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bad-guy, cowboy, good-guy, homestead, land, Mexico, outlaw [Western], Pony-Express, tracking [following]