Action is a 1921 American silent 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]
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![]() Promotion for film in the Casper Daily Tribune (Wyoming), 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 |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Peter B. Kyne's The Three Godfathers | |
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