The Pony Express (1925) - American silent Westernfilm,The film was directed by James Cruze #oldmovie

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As described in the studio pressbook for the film,[4] in 1860, because of his anti-slavery orientation, Jack Weston, a gambler and dead shot, is marked for death by the "Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society headed by avowed Secessionist Senator Glen. Weston makes a sensational escape and goes to Julesburg, Colorado, where he becomes a Pony Express rider. A bitter rivalry breaks out between Weston and Jack Slade, Superintendent of the Overland Stage Company, over the hand of Molly Jones, a popular local belle. Slade has arranged with Glen, in the event that Abraham Lincoln is elected president, to send a fake dispatch to California announcing his defeat, with the intent to swing the state to the Southern cause...

Directed byJames CruzeWritten byWalter Woods (scenario)Based onThe Pony Express
by Henry James Forman and Walter WoodsProduced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse LaskyStarringBetty Compson
Ricardo CortezCinematographyKarl BrownMusic byHugo RiesenfeldDistributed byParamount Pictures

Release date

September 20, 1925

Running time

10 film reel; 9,929 feet (110 minutes)CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)