Riders of the Purple Sage

Lariats and Love Weave the West's Most Thrilling Romance

Western
58 min     9     1931     USA

Overview

Lassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassiter arrives at the Withersteen ranch looking for the now grown daughter. He immediately gets caught up in the ranch's struggle against rustlers. Trailing a rustled herd of horses leads him to the rustler's hideout and the missing daughter.

Reviews

Richard-Weddle wrote:
An essential pre-code western of the 1930s that deserves to be restored and more widely seen. The westerns George O'Brien made at Fox between 1930 and 1935 are seriously good films, literate and intelligent, and important in the development of the genre.

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