The Lone Rider

An outlaw trying to double-cross his partners-in-crime inadvertently rescues a judge's daughter from them and winds up going straight.

Cast

Buck Jones

as Jim Lanning

Vera Reynolds

as Mary Stevens

Harry Woods

as Ed Farrell

George C. Pearce

as Judge Stevens

Tom Bay

as Henchman Bull

Buck Bucko

as Henchman

Roy Bucko

as Henchman

Bob Burns

as Henchman

Buck Connors

as Townsman

Jim Corey

as Henchman

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