The Three Godfathers

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The Three Godfathers may refer to:

The Three Godfathers is a bestselling 1913 novel by Peter B. Kyne about a trio of bank robbers who become godfathers to a newborn child. It is also the name of several film adaptations of the book:

<i>The Three Godfathers</i> (1916 film) 1916 film

The Three Godfathers is a 1916 American silent film featuring Harry Carey. The film was remade in 1919 as Marked Men, which also starred Carey.

<i>Three Godfathers</i> (1936 film) 1936 film by Richard Boleslawski

Three Godfathers is a 1936 western film directed by Richard Boleslawski and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, and Irene Hervey. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Peter B. Kyne. Three bank robbers find a newborn baby and his dying mother in the desert.

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<i>Marked Men</i> (1919 film) 1919 film

Marked Men is a 1919 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey. Considered to be lost, it is a remake of the 1916 film The Three Godfathers, which also starred Carey.

<i>Action</i> (1921 film) 1921 film

Action is a 1921 American 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.

<i>Hells Heroes</i> (film) 1930 film by William Wyler

Hell's Heroes (1929) is a Western film, one of many screen adaptations of Peter B. Kyne's 1913 novel The Three Godfathers. Three outlaws, played by Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, and Fred Kohler, promise a dying woman they will save her newborn child. This film is also notable for being the first sound production directed by William Wyler.

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