The Lawless Rider is a 1954 American western black and white film directed by Yakima Canutt, starring Johnny Carpenter, Texas Rose Bascom and Frankie Darro, and marketed by United Artists.
The film was financed by a group of Mormons. The original budget was 20,000 but it went over budget. There were legal troubles which meant the film took two years to be released. Samuel Z. Arkoff was involved in negotiations to get the film out, and it was during this that he met producer Alex Gordon who would go on to make several movies with Arkoff. Gordons friend Ed Wood worked on the movie.
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