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Action

Name: Action
Director: John Ford
Released: 1921-01-01

1921 film directed by John Ford

FilmfilmQ2747431

Released: 1921
Director: John Ford
Screenwriter: Harvey Gates
Cast: Hoot Gibson
, Clara Horton
, Francis Ford
, J. Farrell MacDonald
+1 more
Runtime: 50 min
Genre: silent film
, Western film
Country of origin: United States
Distributor: Universal Pictures

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

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Title: Action
Color: black-and-white
Copyright status: public domain applies to jurisdiction: United States
State of transmission: lost

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