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Casper Daily Tribune (Wyoming), October 21, 1921
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
Release date(s)	September 12, 1921 (1921-09-12)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

Action is a 1921 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

1 Cast
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

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 Sherriff Dipple
Jim Corey as Sam Waters
Ed Jones as Art Smith (as Ed 'King Fisher' Jones)

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Action". Silent Era. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/Action1921.html. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
^ 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.

External links

Action at the Internet Movie Database

v t e The films of John Ford

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1920s	The Prince of Avenue A The Girl in Number 29 Hitchin' Posts Just Pals The Big Punch The Freeze-Out The Wallop Desperate Trails Action Sure Fire Jackie Little Miss Smiles Silver Wings (with Edwin Carewe) The Village Blacksmith The Face on the Bar-Room Floor Three Jumps Ahead Cameo Kirby North of Hudson Bay Hoodman Blind Hearts of Oak Lightnin' Kentucky Pride Thank You The Fighting Heart The Shamrock Handicap 3 Bad Men Upstream Four Sons Napoleon's Barber Strong Boy The Black Watch

1930s	Men Without Women Born Reckless Up the River Seas Beneath The Brat Arrowsmith Air Mail Pilgrimage Doctor Bull The Lost Patrol The World Moves On Judge Priest The Whole Town's Talking The Informer Steamboat Round the Bend The Prisoner of Shark Island Mary of Scotland The Plough and the Stars Wee Willie Winkie The Hurricane Four Men and a Prayer Submarine Patrol Stagecoach Young Mr. Lincoln Drums Along the Mohawk

1940s	The Grapes of Wrath The Long Voyage Home Tobacco Road How Green Was My Valley They Were Expendable My Darling Clementine The Fugitive Fort Apache 3 Godfathers She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1950s	When Willie Comes Marching Home Wagon Master Rio Grande The Quiet Man What Price Glory? The Sun Shines Bright Mogambo The Long Gray Line Mister Roberts (with Mervyn LeRoy) The Searchers The Wings of Eagles The Rising of the Moon Gideon's Day The Last Hurrah The Horse Soldiers

1960s	Sergeant Rutledge Two Rode Together The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance How the West Was Won (with Henry Hathaway and George Marshall) Donovan's Reef Cheyenne Autumn 7 Women

Television	"Fireside Theater" (1949) The Bamboo Cross (1955) "Screen Directors Playhouse" (1955) "Wagon Train" (1957-1965)

Productions	The Iron Horse (1924) The Blue Eagle (1926) Mother Machree (1928) Hangman's House (1928) Riley the Cop (1928) Salute (1929) Flesh (1932) The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Young Cassidy (1965)

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