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    Action (1921 film)

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    Action
    Promotion for film in the Casper Daily Tribune (Wyoming), 1921
    Directed byJohn Ford
    Screenplay byHarvey Gates
    Peter B. Kyne
    Based onThe Mascotte of the Three Star
    in Short Stories 1921
    by J. Allan Dunn
    StarringHoot Gibson
    CinematographyJohn W. Brown
    Distributed byUniversal Film Manufacturing Company
    Release date
    • September 12, 1921 (1921-09-12)
    Running time
    		50 minutes
    CountryUnited States
    LanguagesSilent
    English intertitles

    Action is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Hoot Gibson. 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]

    Plot

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    Cast

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    • 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

    See also

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    • List of lost films

    References

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    1. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Action". silentera.com. Retrieved February 26, 2008.
    2. ^ 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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