Straight Shooting
AKA Straight Shootin’ in the USA; Pred puskami cowboyu (Facing Cowboys’ Guns) in Czechoslovakia; Centro! in Italy; Tiro al blanco in Venezuela : [The Cattle War], [Joan of the Cattle Country]
(1917) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Jack Ford (John Ford)

Cast: Harry Carey [Cheyenne Harry], Molly Malone [Joan Sims], Duke R. Lee [Thunder Flint], George Berrell [Sweetwater Sims], Ted Brooks [Tom Sims], Milt Brown [Black-Eyed Pete], Hoot Gibson [Danny Morgan], Vester Pegg [Placer Fremont], [?] ? [Sheriff Daniels]

Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Butterfly]. / Scenario by George Hively, from a story by George Hively. Cinematography by George Scott. / © 20 August 1917 by Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP11276]. Released 27 August 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: Joan of the Cattlelands. Ford’s first feature film. The film was rereleased in the USA by Universal Pictures Corporation on 27 December 1924, and © 17 December 1924 (under the title Straight Shootin’) by Universal Pictures Corporation. The surviving print in the Czechoslavak Film Archives has a happy ending that was apparently edited into the film by Universal for its 1924 rerelease; sources indicate that Carey and Malone separate sadly in the original ending. The film was edited to two reels and rereleased in the USA as Straight Shootin’. [?] Peter Bogdanovich’s filmography in Sinclair-Ford p. 230 credits George Scott with the camera work.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4276.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Czechoslovak Film Archives film archive (possibly the 1924 rerelease version), and in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive (possibly the 1924 rerelease version) [35mm preservation positive].

Keywords: Cattlemen - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Homesteaders - Police: Sheriffs - USA: California: Newhall (Beale’s Cut) - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 2 November 2007.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4276; Braff-Universal nn. 7691, 7693; Edmonds-BigU pp. 116; Everson-American pp. 13, 86k, 252-253, 369; Gallagher-Ford pp. 18, 19-22, 32, 34, 36, 60, 125, 230, 265; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 25; Limbacher-Feature p. 235; Sinclair-Ford pp. 23, 40, 230; Sinyard-Silent p. 56 : Cinemonkey-17 p. 42 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Steven P. Hill.

Home Video: DVD.