Shootin' for Love is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and featuring Hoot Gibson.[1] Gibson plays a World War I veteran suffering from shell shock who at his father's ranch becomes involved in a dispute over water rights that leads to gunfire.[2][3] The British Board of Film Censors, under its then-current guidelines, banned the film in 1923.[1][4]
| Shootin' for Love | |
|---|---|
_-_1.jpg) Advertisement with the title as Shooting for Love | |
| Directed by | Edward Sedgwick |
| Written by | Albert Kenyon Raymond L. Schrock Edward Sedgwick |
| Starring | Hoot Gibson |
| Cinematography | Virgil Miller |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Cast
edit- Hoot Gibson as Duke Travis
- Laura La Plante as Mary Randolph
- Alfred Allen as Jim Travis
- William Welsh as Bill Randolph
- William Steele as Dan Hobson
- Arthur Mackley as Sheriff Bludsoe
- W.T. McCulley as Sandy
- Kansas Moehring as Tex Carson
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: Shootin' for Love at silentera.com
- ^ Langman, Larry (1992). A Guide to Silent Westerns. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 406. ISBN 0-313-27858-X.
- ^ Cox, Caroline (2001). "Invisible Wounds". In Micale, Mark S.; Lerner, Paul; Rosenberg, Charles (eds.). Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930. Cambridge University Press. p. 295. ISBN 0-521-58365-9.
- ^ British Board of Film Classification record for Shootin' for Love
External links
edit- Shootin' for Love at IMDb
- Lobby card at gettyimages.com
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