''Action'' is a 1921 American silent

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film directed by

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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 ''

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'', February 1921.See, for example, the ''

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'', September 4, 1921. This reference also contradicts the presumed release date of September 12, since it advertises the film as opening on September 4.

Cast

* Hoot Gibson as Sandy Brouke * Francis Ford as Soda Water Manning * J. Farrell MacDonald as Mormon Peters *

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as Pat Casey * Clara Horton as Molly Casey * William Robert Daly as J. Plimsoll *

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as Mirandy Meekin * Byron Munson as Henry Meekin * Charles Newton as Sheriff Dipple * Jim Corey as Sam Waters

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