Action (1921 film)
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Ad for the film in the Casper Daily Tribune (Wyoming), October 21, 1921
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| Directed by | John Ford |
| Written by | J. Allan Dunn Harvey Gates Peter B. Kyne |
| Starring | Hoot Gibson |
| Cinematography | John W. Brown |
| Distributed by | Universal Film Manufacturing Company |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent |
Action is a 1921 American Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Hoot Gibson. It was based on Peter B. Kyne's popular novel The Three Godfathers. The film is considered to be lost.[1] According to contemporaneous newspaper reports, Action was based on J. Allan Dunn's novel, The Mascotte of the Three Star; Mascotte appeared as the lead novel in the pulp magazine Short Stories, February 1921.[2]
Contents
Cast
- Hoot Gibson as Sandy Brouke
- Francis Ford as Soda Water Manning
- J. Farrell MacDonald as Mormon Peters
- Buck Connors as Pat Casey
- Clara Horton as Molly Casey
- William Robert Daly as J. Plimsoll
- Dorothea Wolbert as Mirandy Meekin
- Byron Munson as Henry Meekin
- Charles Newton as Sheriff Dipple
- Jim Corey as Sam Waters
- Ed Jones as Art Smith (credited as Ed "King Fisher" Jones)
See also
References
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- ↑ See, for example, the San Francisco Chronicle, September 4, 1921. This reference also contradicts the presumed release date of September 12, since it advertises the film as opening on September 4.
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