title: The Red Rider
text: # The Red Rider
  
  The Red Rider is a 1934 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures and starring Buck Jones. It has 15 chapters based on the short story "The Redhead from Sun Dog" by W. C. Tuttle, and is a remake of Buck Jones' earlier 1931 film The Range Feud.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Sheriff "Red" Davison (Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, is shocked when he hears his good friend "Silent" Slade (Grant Withers) has been accused of murdering a man named Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). He feels that Slade was framed and denied a fair trial. When Slade is sentenced to hang, Red allows him to escape from jail, sacrificing his job and his good reputation in the process. Red and his horse Silver then follow Slade in an attempt to aid him in proving his innocence.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Buck Jones as "Red" Davidson
  * Grant Withers as "Silent" Slade
  * Marion Shilling as Marie Maxwell
  * Walter Miller as Jim Breen
  * Richard Cramer as Joe Portos
  * Silver as Silver, Red's Horse
  * Charles K. French as Robert Maxwell
  * Margaret La Marr as Joan McKee
  * Edmund Cobb as Johnny Snow
  * Monte Montague as Bill Abel, one of Portos' henchmen
  * Jim Thorpe as Al Abel, one of Portos' henchmen
  * William Desmond as Sheriff Campbell
  * Lee Beggs as Mayor "Soapy" Caswell
  * Robert McGowan as Hubert Sund
  * J. Frank Glendon as an Attorney
  
  ## Production
  
  The Red Rider was based on the short story "The Redhead from Sun Dog" by W. C. Tuttle.
  
  ### Stunts
  
  * Cliff Lyons
  * Tom Steele
  
  ## Chapter titles
  
  * Sentenced to Die
  * A Leap for Life
  * The Night Attack
  * A Treacherous Ambush
  * Trapped
  * The Brink of Death
  * The Fatal Plunge
  * The Stampede
  * The Posse Rider
  * The Avenging Trail
  * The Lost Diamonds
  * Double Trouble
  * The Night Raiders
  * In the Enemies' Hideout
  * Brought to Justice
  
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