Straight Shooting (1917)

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  • STRAIGHT SHOOTING


    DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Jack Ford)
    UNIVERSAL FILM MANUFACTURING COMPANY



    INFORMATION FROM IMDb


    Plot Summary
    Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply.
    When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him.
    Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims,
    but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.


    Cast
    Harry Carey ... Cheyenne Harry
    Duke R. Lee ... Thunder Flint (as Duke Lee)
    George Berrell ... Sweet Water Sims
    Molly Malone ... Joan SimsTed Brooks ...
    Ted Sims
    Hoot Gibson ... Sam Turner aka Danny Morgan
    Milton Brown ... Black-Eye Pete (as Milt Brown)
    Vester Pegg ... Placer Fremont


    Directed
    John Ford ... (as Jack Ford)


    Writing Credits
    George Hively ... (story)


    Cinematography
    George Scott
    Ben F. Reynolds ... (unconfirmed) (uncredited)


    Other crew
    Carl Laemmle ... president: Universal Film Mfg. Co.


    Trivia
    The film was considered lost until a copy was found in the Czechoslovak Film
    There is now a copy at George Eastman House.


    This is believed to be John Ford's first feature film.


    Filming Locations
    Santa Clarita, California, USA
    Beale's Cut, Newhall, California, USA
    Newhall, California, USA


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    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

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  • Straight Shooting is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by John Ford
    and featuring Harry Carey.


    Prints of this film survive in the International Museum of Photography
    and Film at George Eastman House.


    A further outing for Harry Carey starring as Cheyenne Harry
    with again some of Jack Ford's regulars


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    User Review


    Strikingly prophetic early Ford film
    4 October 1999 | by mgmax (Chicago)

    Apparently the earliest Ford film to survive intact, Straight Shooting could hardly be bettered as a prototype for so many films later in his career-- there are moments that are reproduced almost exactly in The Searchers in particular, and to a lesser extent in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, etc. While this modest genre film doesn't treat these themes with the deep emotional resonance of the later classics, it is surprisingly serious and thoughtful, and shows that the young Ford was unusually responsive to the emotional gravity that an older star like Carey could bring to a simple shoot 'em up--


    the film is more mature than many of his 20s films with George O'Brien.

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

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