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5.5The 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.
Released: 1917-03-0330 minDir: John FordWestern
Cast
- John Ford as Jack Dayton (as Jack Ford)
- Jean Hathaway as Jack's mother
- Peter Gerald as Pendleton - banker from Rock River (as Pete Gerald)
- Elsie Thornton as Bess - Jack's daughter
- Duke Worne as Lesparre - the lead of Cayote gang
- John Duffy as Slick - Jack's partner
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- Duration
- 30
- FilmAffinity ID
- 118457
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- publication date
- 1917-01-01
- title
- The Tornado
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