Straight Shooting
About Straight Shooting
Cattleman Thunder Flint cuts the water that farmer Sweet Water Sims needs. When Sims's son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne Harry is sent to finish Sims. He finds the family at the new grave and changes sides. Harry Carey plays Cheyenne Harry. John Ford directed.
Cast & crew
More about Straight Shooting
John Ford directed. George Hively wrote it. Ben F. Reynolds and George Scott photographed it. Universal released it on 27 August 1917. Duke R. Lee plays Flint. George Berrell plays Sims. Molly Malone plays Joan Sims. Hoot Gibson is in the cast. The Chicago Board of Censors refused a permit, calling the submitted print a detailed portrayal of murder and outlawry.
Themes
Background
A 1917 range war: ranchers against a farmer over water, with a hired gun who switches.
Making
Ford's early Universal westerns were program pictures built around Carey. This is one of the features from that run that still exists.
Look
Ben F. Reynolds and George Scott photographed it.
Preservation
Prints survive at the George Eastman Museum.
Notes
- Cheyenne Harry is the name Carey used in a run of Ford westerns. Here he is hired to kill the farmer and refuses at the grave.
- Ted Brooks plays Ted Sims. Vester Pegg plays Placer Fremont.
- Chicago would not license the film as Ford and Universal submitted it.
- A print is at the George Eastman Museum.
Scenes
- Ted is shot when he goes for water.
- Harry arrives to kill Sims and instead stands with the family at the grave.
