The Trail Rider [SEP] director
The Trail Rider
The Trail Rider is a 1925 American silent directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Buck Jones. Based on the 1924 novel "The Trail Rider: A Romance of the Kansas Range" by George Washington Ogden, the film is about a trail rider hired to protect ranchers from the actions of a corrupt banker. The film was produced by Fox Film Corp. and was released on February 22, 1925 in the United States. It marked Gary Cooper’s film debut as a stunt rider. It is not
it was revealed that Randall Miller was in pre-production for a film called "Slick Rock Trail" and working with casting director Rick Pagano of Pagano/Manwiller Casting. Pagano had also worked with Miller as casting director on "Midnight Rider," CBGB, Nobel Son and Bottle Shock. It seems the film has similarities to the "Midnight Rider" script including borrowing a line from Gregg Allman's book which is also a common quote of the origin story of the Allman Brothers band. In the quote Allman refers to