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Director
  
John Ford

Cast
  
Hoot Gibson

Language
  
Silent

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IMDb

Genre
  
Western

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Writer
  
J. Allan Dunn
,
Harvey Gates
,
Peter B. Kyne

Release date
  
September 12, 1921 (1921-09-12)

Genres
  
Western, Indie film, Silent film, Black-and-white

Written by
  
J. Allan Dunn, Harvey Gates, Peter B. Kyne

Similar movies
  
Related John Ford movies

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. 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.

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)

    • References

    Action (1921 film) Wikipedia
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    Action (1921 film) IMDb