The Gun Fighter, on posters The Gunfighter, is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by and starring William S. Hart as the leader of a group of Arizona outlaws, and co-starred Margery Wilson and Roy Laidlaw.The BFI Companion to the Western, p. 132, 1988 - "In since the earliest days; in The Gunfighter (1917) William S. Hart plays Cliff Hudspeth, the gunfighter of the title, who is the leader of a band of Arizona outlaws."Richard Aquila The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America 2015 "William S. Hart is in the center holding two guns in this still from The Gunfighter (Kay-Bee Pictures/New York Motion Picture Company, 1917). Hart's time on that which is good.”James Robert Parish, Michael R. Pitts The Great Western Pictures II, 1988, p. 138 – "The Gunfighter locals mistake them for big-time investors and make them welcome. ... The Gunfighter (Triangle, 1916) five reels Producer, Thomas H. Ince; director, William S. Hart; screenplay, Monte J. Katterjohn; art director, ..."
Plot
Cast William S. Hart as Cliff Hudspeth Margery Wilson as Norma Wright Roy Laidlaw as El Salvador Joseph J. Dowling as 'Ace High' Larkins (credited as J.J. Dowling) Milton Ross as 'Cactus' Fuller J.P. Lockney as Col. Ellis Lawton Georgie Stone as Georgie Stone
References
External links
The Gunfighter (1917): A Silent Film Review at moviessilently.com