Jack Roberts and his sidekick, Malpai Joe, see John Hale and his nephew, Tom, attempting to run a bandit blockade with supplies for their mine; John is wounded by the outlaws, and Tom makes his getaway..


Is this 1927 silent Western worth watching today? Short answer: only if you possess a deep-seated reverence for the skeletal remains of early genre filmmaking, as its narrative is as thin as the celluloid it was printed on. This film is for the archival enthusiast and the silent era completist; it is decidedly not for ...


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"Is this 1927 silent Western worth watching today? Short answer: only if you possess a deep-seated reverence for the skeletal remains of early genre filmmaking, as its narrative is as thin as the celluloid it was printed on. This film is for the archival enthusiast and the silent era completist; it is decidedly not for anyone who requires a coherent emotional arc or high-fidelity action choreography.Straight Shootin' serves as a stark reminder of how the Western genre functioned before it was pol..."
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