Summary
A stark, sun-drenched tableau of avarice and providence, Desert Rider unfolds with the brutal efficiency of a desert wind. The narrative engine ignites when Kincade, a man whose moral compass has been completely eroded by the prospect of unearned wealth, guns down the prospector Baird to seize a map leading to a legendary gold mine. In a twist of cosmic irony, Kincade loses the very document he murdered for, leaving him wandering the arid wastes in a state of frustrated fury. Meanwhile, the stalwart Sutherland, portrayed with rugged sincerity by Jack Hoxie, stumbles upon the expiring Baird. Receiving the mine's coordinates from the dying man's parched lips as a final act of justice, Sutherland successfully extracts the riches. However, the discovery of the gold transforms him into the quarry of a relentless, mapless Kincade, who now hunts the man instead of the mountain. It is a primitive struggle for survival and wealth, set against an unforgiving horizon where the line between salvation and damnation is as thin as a shadow at high noon.
Synopsis
Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells him the mine's location. Kincade, having lost the map, now goes after the gold Sutherland has taken out of the mine.
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