The Headless Horseman (1922)

19221h 16mUnited Stateshorror filmsilent film

With Will Rogers, Lois Meredith, James Sheridan

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The Headless Horseman is a 1922 American silent film adaptation of Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" directed by Edward D. Venturini. It stars Will Rogers, Lois Meredith (in her last major on-screen appearance) and Ben Hendricks Jr. It was the first panchromatic black-and-white feature film.

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