Riders of Vengeance

Riders of Vengeance is a 1919 American Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey.

One by one he stalks his wife's killers, dispatching them all until he finally sets his sights, mistakenly, on Sheriff Gale Thurman.

At first threatening to harm the girl, Harry slowly falls in love with her, all while hostile Apaches attempt to kill them both.

The story was an uncommon collaboration between the star Harry Carey and the director John Ford (with help from scenarist Eugene Lewis).

Though it has an unusually high level of violence ("lots of killings", as Moving Picture World noted), critical reviews of the time lavishly praised both the story and film.