A cowboy tries to help a ranch owner and his daughter fight off a gang of rustlers preying on their herd. However, he is at first mistaken for a visiting European prince and then for a member of the rustlers himself.
May Wadman
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Is The Rider of the Pass worth watching today? Short answer: yes, but only if you have an appetite for the specific rhythmic eccentricities of late-silent Westerns. This film is for the cinema historian who enjoys seeing the genre play with its own tropes, and it is certainly not for the modern viewer who demands high-...

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William A. Crinley

Edgar Jones
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"Is The Rider of the Pass worth watching today? Short answer: yes, but only if you have an appetite for the specific rhythmic eccentricities of late-silent Westerns. This film is for the cinema historian who enjoys seeing the genre play with its own tropes, and it is certainly not for the modern viewer who demands high-octane pacing or complex psychological realism.1) This film works because it successfully blends the 'mistaken identity' farce with traditional frontier action, preventing the stor..."


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