Religion and Gun Practice

Religion and Gun Practice (1913)

Wesley Judell, as a missionary, finds a futile but puzzling field for work in the far, wild west.

Date of release
1913-05-26
Runtime
28m
Genres
Western
Director
William Duncan

Casting

Interesting facts

Religion and Gun Practice: The Way of the West is a 1913 American silent Western film directed by William Duncan and starring Tom Mix, Rex De Rosselli and Myrtle Stedman. Among other roles in similar films at the time, Tom Mix's role in Religion and Gun Practice established what would be the cowboy hero of the twentieth century. The movie was played in theaters across the nation.

Filming

The movie was filmed by William Duncan and the Selig Polyscope Company in the facilities of what used to be the Lubin Film Company studio, in Prescott, Arizona. The location provided a landscape of hills and valleys, forest, and desert wasteland ("Slaughter House Gulch"), as well as iconic rock formations.

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