Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1941 film based on the Western novel by Zane Grey, directed by James Tinling, and starring George Montgomery as Lassiter and Mary Howard as Jane Withersteen. This picture is the fourth of five screen adaptations of Grey's novel produced across an eight-decade span.
Synopsis
Jim Lassiter (George Montgomery) learns early on that his niece Fay Larkin (Patty Patterson) has been cheated out of her inheritance by crooked Judge Dyer (Robert Barrat).
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