
The Moon Riders
Summary
Set against the jagged, unforgiving topography of the American West, The Moon Riders serves as a visceral exploration of territorial fragility and the predatory nature of legalistic chicanery. The narrative pivots on a group of resilient homesteaders whose tenuous grip on their ancestral soil is threatened by a cabal of opportunistic villains. This antagonistic faction seeks to weaponize the 'obsolete Spanish land grants'—archaic, paper-thin justifications for displacement—to seize control of the region for profit. As the bureaucratic machinery of the old world is wielded like a bludgeon against the agrarian pioneers, the film descends into a high-stakes conflict where the rugged individualism of the frontier clashes with the calculated greed of modernizing forces. It is a palimpsest of historical grievance, where the shadows of colonial decree loom over the sweat-drenched reality of the 1920s frontier.
Synopsis
The struggle of a group of homesteaders against an unscrupulous band that desires to profit through obsolete Spanish land grants.
Director
Charles Newton, George Field, Tote Du Crow, Albert MacQuarrie, Mildred Moore, Art Acord, Beatrice Dominguez
Albert Russell, George Hively, Theodore Wharton, William Pigott, Karl R. Coolidge









