The Phantom Rider is a 1946 American Western film serial from Republic Pictures starring Robert Kent and Peggy Stewart.
Dr Jim Sterling attempts to create a police force on the Big Tree Indian Reservation.
However, his efforts face sabotage, secretly directed by the apparently friendly Indian Agent Fred Carson, whose gang is currently able to rob stagecoaches wagons without opposition.
In order to defeat his enemies, Sterling adopts the name and costume of the legendary "Phantom Rider".
[1] The serial was re-released on 11 October 1954, under the new title Ghost Riders of the West, between the first runs of Man with the Steel Whip and Panther Girl of the Kongo.