The Terror is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Art Acord.

While he is being sworn in as a deputy, his daughter Molly is being eyed covetously by Blair Hatley, who holds a mortgage on her father's ranch.

When Blair speaks to her of marriage, she runs off to the ranch cook, who is watching a stranger with a smart horse doing rope tricks.

She passes him a note asking to be saved, and the stranger suddenly grabs her and exits, jumping on his horse and getting away to the forest.

Molly is ready to marry the stranger whether he is an outlaw or not, but he turns out to be a Texas Ranger and the question of a wedding is resolved.