The Tornado (1917)

Özet

The Tornado mostly followed pulp Western formula -- bad guys hold up a town, take a girl hostage, and the hero rides to the rescue. But there were a couple of twists that made it seem more personal than the usual cowboy fare. Ford's Jack Dayton ... is known as "the No-Gun Man" because he faces the villains unarmed, anticipating the character played by James Stewart in George Marshall's 1939 Western comedy classic Destry Rides Again. Dayton is an immigrant who uses the reward money to bring over his mother (Jean Hathaway) from Ireland, a prototypically Fordian situation if there ever was one.

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  John Ford

  Jack Dayton (as Jack Ford)

• Jean Hathaway

  Jack's mother

• Peter Gerald

  Pendleton - banker from Rock River (as Pete Gerald)

• Elsie Thornton

  Bess - Jack's daughter

• Duke Worne

  Lesparre - the lead of Cayote gang

• John Duffy

  Slick - Jack's partner

Ekip

Yönetmen

John Ford

Senaryo

John Ford

Hikâye / Eser

Francis Ford, Grace Cunard