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.