The Headless Rider (1973)
1h 40m
Running Time
July 25, 1973Release Date
The Headless Rider (1973)
1h 40m
Running Time
July 25, 1973Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Ludmila Savelyeva
Louisa Poindexter
Aarne Üksküla
Cassius Calhoun
Eslinda Núñez
Isidora Kavarubiya
Aleksandr Milokostyj
Henri Poindexter
Enrique Santisteban
Eli Coyote
Oleg Vidov
Morris Gerald
Ivan Petrov
Zeb Stamp
E. Kharkevich
дама
Vladimir Vaynshtok
Director
Eslinda Nunes
Isidora Kovarubio De Los-L'yanos
Pavel Finn
Writer
Thomas Mayne Reid
Writer
Nikita Bogoslovskiy
Composer
Alejandro Lugo
Poyndekster
Konstantin Ryzhov
Cinematographer
Alfonso Godines
sud'ya
Rolando Diaz Reyes
mayor
Alexander Milokosty
Henry Poindexter
Plato Leslie
Pluton
Farah María
pevitsa
Yakov Rivosh
Production Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 25, 1973
Original NameVsadnik bez Golovy
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Genres
Wiki.
The Headless Horseman (Russian: Всадник без головы, romanized: Vsadnik bez golovy) is a 1973 Soviet-Cuban Red Western film directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok based on the eponymous novel by Thomas Mayne Reid. The film was the first Soviet Western. It was a box office success, 51,7 million tickets were sold and the picture holds the 33rd place in terms of cinema attendance in the Soviet Union.