DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Straight shooting / Butterfly Pictures presents ; director, John Ford ; writer, George Hively.

[New York] : Kino Lorber, c2020.

1 videodisc (75 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

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New 4K restoration by Universal Pictures! Straight shooting is a landmark in the history of the Western. It is the first feature directed by the legendary John Ford (here credited as Jack Ford) who revived the career of Harry Carey, one of his greatest stars, who gives a rough-and-tumble performance as a hired gun of cattle rustlers. "Cheyenne Harry" is a role Carey would play into the 1930s, an amiable antihero who pals around with outlaws but who really has a heart of gold. The plot: When farmers encroach on the Western plains used by cattlemen and their herds, land baron Thunder Flint begins a cold-blooded campaign to drive them out. He hires gunman Cheyenne Harry to force the Sims family off their farm. Cheyenne arrives at the Sims' home just as family members are burying their young son, a casualty of the range war. The gunslinger is moved to tears at this tragic sight and becomes a changed man. He renounces his mercenary past and puts his gun at the farmers' disposal in the ongoing range war.

Not rated.

KL studio classics

KL studio classics.

Cattle breeders -- Drama.

Farmers -- Drama.

Frontier and pioneer life -- Drama.

Gunfighters -- Drama.

West (U.S.) -- Drama.

Western films.

Silent films.

Ford, John, 1894-1973, film director.

Hively, George, screenwriter.

Carey, Harry, 1878-1947, actor.

Gibson, Hoot, 1892-1962, actor.

Malone, Molly, 1888-1952, actor.

Lee, Duke, 1881-1959, actor.

Pegg, Vester, 1889-1951, actor.

Scott, George, 1874-1929, cinematographer.

Laemmle, Carl, 1867-1939, presenter.

Universal Film Manufacturing Company, production company.

Kino Lorber, Inc., film distributor.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1917.

Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Joseph McBride, author of Searching for John Ford: a life ; Hitchin' posts (1920, directed by John Ford, fragment preserved by the Library of Congress) ; Video essay by film critic Tag Gallagher ; Score by Michael Gatt.

Photography, George Scott; presenter, Carl Laemmle [Sr.].

Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Molly Malone, Duke Lee, Vester Pegg.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, full screen (1.333;1); Dolby.

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6318283331 : DVD

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DVD MOVIE Straight