The Gun Packer is a 1919

1919 in film

The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists...

 short Western film

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 directed by John Ford

John Ford

John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...

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Production

Filming began on March 25, 1919 under the working title Out Wyoming Way. Just two months later, The Gun Packer was released by Universal Studios

Universal Studios

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 as a 20-minute silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 on two reels. This film was reissued in August 1924.

Plot

A reformed outlaw enlists the aid of his former gunslinging companions to defend a small shepherd community from domineering cattle barons.

Cast

• Ed Jones - Sandy McLoughlin
• Pete Morrison
  Pete Morrison
  George D. Morrison, nicknamed Pete, was an American silent western film actor born August 8, 1890 in Westminster, Colorado. During his childhood he lived at Morrison, Colorado and Idaho Springs, and got his early tastes of horsemanship riding with his father Thomas during the summer...
  
   - "Pearl Handle" Wiley
• Magda Lane - Rose McLoughlin
• Jack Woods - Pecos Smith
• Hoot Gibson
  Hoot Gibson
  Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Gang Leader
• Jack Walters - Brown
• Duke R. Lee
  Duke R. Lee
  Duke R. Lee was an American actor. He appeared in 99 films between 1913 and 1946.He was born in Prince Henry County, Virginia and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Stagecoach...
  
  - Buck Landers
• Howard Enstaedt - Bobby McLoughlin