Straight Shooting

Straight Shooting (1917)

A story of a western bad man who turned to the right through the influence of a haunting pair of hazel eyes.

Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.

Date of release
1917-08-27
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 2m
Genres
Western
Director
John Ford

Casting

Interesting facts

Straight Shooting is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. Prints of this film survive in the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman Museum. Like many American films of the time, Straight Shooting was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors refused to issue a permit for this film as submitted as it consists of detailed portrayal of murder and outlawry.

Production

John Ford's older brother Francis proposed John to direct the film after the first director left. Harry Carey and John Ford hit it off immediately and continued to work together after the success of the film. Carey mentored Ford "he tutored me in the early years sort of brought me along".

Most of the exterior sets were built and the film was shot on the Universal backlot. Ford concocted a scheme to make a feature-length film out of what was budgeted to be a two reel film by telling Universal some of the exposed film had fallen in a river. When Universal realized that they had a full-length film on their hands, the studio was upset.

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