The Headless Horseman (Russian: Всадник без головы, romanized: Vsadnik bez golovy) is a 1973 Soviet-Cuban Red Western film directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok based on the eponymous novel by Thomas Mayne Reid.

It was a box office success, 51,7 million tickets were sold and the picture holds the 33rd place in terms of cinema attendance in the Soviet Union.

Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Corvo, falls in love with a poor mustanger Maurice Gerald.

Suspicion in murder falls on Gerald, who was found covered in blood, with signs of struggle on the body and on Henry's cloak.

One more minute, and an angry crowd would have Gerald lynched, but then the mysterious Headless Horseman appears...