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Action is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Hoot Gibson. It was based on Peter B. Kyne's popular novel The Three Godfathers. The film is considered to be lost. According to contemporaneous newspaper reports, Action was based on J. Allan Dunn's novel, The Mascotte of the Three Star; Mascotte appeared as the lead novel in the pulp magazine Short Stories, February 1921.
Original Release
09/12/1921
US Release
09/12/1921
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Hoot Gibson | Sandy Brouke |
| Francis Ford | Soda Water Manning |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | Mormon Peters |
| Buck Connors | Pat Casey |
| Clara Horton | Molly Casey |
| William Robert Daly | J. Plimsoll |
| Dorothea Wolbert | Mirandy Meekin |
| Byron Munson | Henry Meekin |
| Charles Newton | Sherriff Dipple |
| Jim Corey | Sam Waters |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Hoot Gibson | Sandy Brouke |
| Francis Ford | Soda Water Manning |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | Mormon Peters |
| Buck Connors | Pat Casey |
| Clara Horton | Molly Casey |
| William Robert Daly | J. Plimsoll |
| Dorothea Wolbert | Mirandy Meekin |
| Byron Munson | Henry Meekin |
| Charles Newton | Sherriff Dipple |
| Jim Corey | Sam Waters |
| Ed Jones | Art Smith |
