The Tornado
5.7
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.
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John Ford
Jack Dayton (as Jack Ford)
Also in
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The Bandit's Wager
Jean Hathaway
Jack's mother
Also in
Plain Clothes
Jane's Declaration of Independence
Peter Gerald
Pendleton - banker from Rock River (as Pete Gerald)
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Mister Vampire
The Craving
Elsie Thornton
Bess - Jack's daughter
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Duke Worne
Lesparre - the lead of Cayote gang
Also in
The Trail of Hate
The Scrapper
John Duffy
Slick - Jack's partner
Also in
The Purple Mask
John Ford Director · Francis Ford Story Grace Cunard Story
United States release March 3, 1917 · Produced in United States
Production
Bison Motion Pictures
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Release dates
United States · March 3, 1917
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