The Tornado (1917)

0h 30m · 3 Mar 1917

Western

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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.

Movie ID	94704
Genre	Western
Director	John Ford
Main cast	John Ford, Jean Hathaway, Peter Gerald, Elsie Thornton, Duke Worne, John Duffy
Release date	3 March 1917
Release year	1917
Language	EN
Duration	30 min (0h 30m)
Rating	5.5 / 10 (TMDB)
Production house	Bison Motion Pictures