Ride for Your Life

{{Infobox film

| name = Ride for Your Life

| image = Ride for Your Life lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Edward Sedgwick

| producer = Carl Laemmle
Hoot Gibson

| writer = Johnston McCulley
Richard Schayer
Raymond L. Schrock

| starring = Hoot Gibson

| cinematography = Virgil Miller

| distributor = Universal Pictures

| released = {{film date|1924|2|25}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Ride for Your Life is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and featuring Hoot Gibson.[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RideForYourLife1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: Ride for Your Life] at silentera.com

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: Ride for Your Life |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=26 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=8 March 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n109/mode/1up |accessdate=22 September 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Bud Watkins is in love with Betsy Burke. However, she shows a preference for The Cocopah Kid, a reckless bandit. Gambler "Gentleman Jim" Slade cheats Bud out of his ranch. The Cocopah Kid dies suddenly. Bud, disguised as the bandit, has a variety of wild adventures. He defeats Slade's plot to obtain possession of the newly discovered gold diggings, rescues Betsy from Slade's clutches, and eventually wins Betsy's affection.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

Hoot Gibson as Bud Watkins
Laura La Plante as Betsy Burke
Harry Todd as "Plug" Hanks
Robert McKim as "Gentleman Jim" Slade
Howard Truesdale as Dan Burke (credited as Howard Truesdell)
Fred Humes as The Cocopah Kid
Clark Comstock as Tim Murphy
Anna Dodge as Mrs. Donnegan (credited as Mrs. George Hernandez)
William Robert Daly as Dan Donnegan

}}

Preservation

With no prints of Ride for Your Life located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8679/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Ride for Your Life] it is a lost film.