Straight Shooting

Long believed to be lost until it was rediscovered in a Czech film archive in the 1960s, this very early western is part of a series which starred Harry Carey as Cheyenne Harry under the direction of John Ford. During production it crept up to five reels, becoming Ford's first feature. It develops a cattlemen versus homesteaders conflict, with Cheyenne Harry changing sides. Ford's visual style is already often striking and Harry Carey's gesture of one arm grasping the other would be repeated as a homage by John Wayne at the end of Ford's The Searchers, almost 40 years later.