There are moments in
Straight Shooting (1917), the first feature directed by John (then Jack ) Ford, when its star Harry Carey (1878-1947) exudes a naturalism that the famous Western actors who followed him, most notably John Wayne, strove to emulate.
There are moments in
Straight Shooting (1917), the first feature directed by John (then Jack ) Ford, when its star Harry Carey (1878-1947) exudes a naturalism that the famous Western actors who followed him, most notably John Wayne, strove to emulate.
When Carey s character Cheyenne Harry is looking confidingly at the camera, his surly almost-smile is millimeter-perfect in its grudgingness and sense of the ironic. His unsteadiness and glazed expression when drunk convey that bizarre mix of hyper-selfawareness and dimmed comprehension everyone knows when they ve had two or three too many. In the rhetoric-heavy era of silent cinema acting, Carey was a marvel of minimalism – unlike William S. Hart, his peer (and fellow New Yorker
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Straight Shooting and Hell Bent
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Eureka Entertainment to release STRAIGHT SHOOTING & HELL BENT: TWO FILMS BY JOHN FORD, two early films from the greatest Western director of all time, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK as part of The Masters of Cinema Series from 19 April 2021. Both features presented on Blu-ray from 4K restorations with a Limited-Edition O-Card Slipcase (First Print Run of 2000 copies) and reversible sleeve artwork.
The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present two early features from John Ford (credited on both films as Jack Ford) in their UK debuts on home video, fully restored in 4K.