Shootin' for Love

Shootin' for Love
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Directed by	Edward Sedgwick
Written by	Albert Kenyon Raymond L. Schrock Edward Sedgwick
Starring	Hoot Gibson
Cinematography	Virgil Miller
Release date	June 28, 1923 (1923-06-28)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

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]}

Cast

• 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

• Hoot Gibson filmography

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: Shootin' for Love at silentera.com
2. Langman, Larry (1992). A Guide to Silent Westerns. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 406. ISBN   0-313-27858-X.
3. 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.
4. British Board of Film Classification record for Shootin' for Love

External links

• Shootin' for Love at IMDb
• Lobby card at gettyimages.com