The Tornado [290848]
Released: 1917-03-03
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Profit: $0
Runtime: 30 mins
Popularity: 0.2873
Vote Average: 5.5
Vote Count: 2
Overview: The 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.

Cast [6]
John Ford
Jack Dayton
Jean Hathaway
Jack's mother
Peter Gerald
Pendleton - bank
Elsie Thornton
Bess - Jack's da
Duke Worne
Lesparre - the l
John Duffy
Slick - Jack's p

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