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The Headless Rider (1957) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1957 · 91 mins · Spanish
- Directed by
- Chano Urueta
- Starring
- Carlos Suárez, Alberto Pedret, Pascual García Peña, Fernando Osés, Elvira Lodi, Jaime Fernández
A mute, phantom hero confronts skull‑masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that refuses to stay in its grave, all set in a lawless frontier. The film opens a horror‑western trilogy, later joined by La marca de Satanás (The Mark of Satan) and La cabeza de Pancho Villa (The Head of Pancho Villa).
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