The TornadoMovie
The Tornado mostly followed pulp Western formula -- bad guys hold up a town, take a girl hostage, and the hero rides to the rescue. But there were a couple of twists that made it seem more personal than the usual cowboy fare. Ford's Jack Dayton ... is known as "the No-Gun Man" because he faces the villains unarmed, anticipating the character played by James Stewart in George Marshall's 1939 Western comedy classic Destry Rides Again. Dayton is an immigrant who uses the reward money to bring over his mother (Jean Hathaway) from Ireland, a prototypically Fordian situation if there ever was one.
About The Tornado
The Tornado is a 1917 western movie directed by John Ford.
The production information lists a runtime of 30m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes John Ford, Jean Hathaway, Peter Gerald, Elsie Thornton. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
