The Headless Rider
Всадник без головы
Release: 1973-07-25
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 5.7
Romance
Adventure
Western
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...
Production Countries
Cuba
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Lenfilm
ICAIC
Cast
Vyktor Veselkyn
Eslinda Núñez
as Isidora Kovarubio De Los-L'yanos
Enrique Santisteban
as El Koyot
Alejandro Lugo
as Poyndekster
E. Kharkevich
Oleg Vidov
as Morris Gerald
Aarne Üksküla
as Cassius Calhoun
Ivan Petrov
as Zeb Stamp
Alfonso Godínez
as Plato
Ludmila Savelyeva
as Louisa Poindexter
Rolando Diaz Reyes
as major
Aleksandr Milokostyj
as Henry Poindexter
Platon Leslie
as judge
