The Maldives perform Riders of the Purple Sage
ON RUSH - tickets may be available at the door.
The Maldives have been breaking hearts and melting faces with their Northwestern brand of country rock since 2006. Their music is made of blue jeans and brown beards, fiddle tunes, and moonshine. They will provide musical accompaniment for cowboy legend Tom Mix's silent 1925 film, Riders of the Purple Sage. Adapted from the sensational novel by Zane Grey (1911), this 1925 silent film is a consistently action-packed Western featuring quick-draw cowboys, numerous outlaws and villains, a cattle stampede, and an avalanche. Tom Mix plays easterner Jim Carson who reinvents himself as cowboy Jim Lassiter when he learns that his sister Millie and niece Bess have been kidnapped by dastardly lawyer Lew Walters and his cronies. Lassiter devotes himself to hunting the fiends down, and after several years on the trail, he comes across Walter's three henchmen in a frontier saloon and kills them all in a gun duel. With the help of ranch owner Miss Jane Withersteen, Lassiter learns that Millie is dead but continues his quest to catch up with the wicked Lew Walters and rescue Bess from whatever fate may have befallen her.
Maldives front man Jason Dodson explains, “There's a band from the late ‘60s called 'New Riders Of The Purple Sage' that Mayor McGinn compared us to at his inauguration, which was a big influence on our selection!”
Cast & Crew
Director: Lynn F. Reynolds
Screenwriter: Edfrid A. Bingham, based on the novel by Zane Grey
Cinematographer: Daniel Clark
Principal Cast: Tom Mix, Arthur Morrison, Beatrice Burnham, Warner Oland, Charles Newton
Filmography: The Brute Breaker (1919); Bullet Proof (1920); Sky High (1922); The Rainbow Trail (1925); The Man in the Saddle (1926)
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