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'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, ..."]
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
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