The Pony Express

Sep 3, 1925

1h 6m

★ 5.9

Overview

The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.

Genres

Western

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Cast

Molly Jones

Betty Compson

Jack Weston

Ricardo Cortez

'Ascension' Jones

Ernest Torrence

Rhode Island Red

Wallace Beery

Jack Slade

George Bancroft

Charlie Bent

Frank Lackteen

Billie Cody

Johnny Fox

William Russell

William H. Turner

Senator Glen

Al Hart

Sam Clemens

Charles Gerson

Aunt

Rose Tapley

Baby

Vondell Darr

William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.

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