Riders of the Night is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by John H. Collins and starred his wife Viola Dana.

[2] As described in a film magazine,[3] Sally Castleton (Dana) is loved by Milt Derr (Chesebro), but Jed (Blue), a cousin of Milt, is desirous of possessing Sally.

The night riders assemble against the gate keeper, who charges the villagers an excess toll.

Sally, found departing from the Derr home by the chimney, is held for the murder.

For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 3, of a closeup of a $50 bill, Reel 5, five scenes of testing of scaffold rope, vision of man shooting in silhouette, all but the first scene of officer pulling Sally away from bars to include closeup of hands, forcing her up scaffold stairs, three scenes of her on scaffold with hood over head to where lover appears.