John Duffy

John Duffy

Movies for John Duffy...

The Tornado
Title: The Tornado
Character: Slick - Jack's partner
Released: March 3, 1917
Type: Movie
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.
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The Purple Mask
Title: The Purple Mask
Character: Silk Donahue
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Cunard turns into The Queen of the Apaches, an outlaw who steals from the rich to gives to the poor, always leaving a purple mask behind as a trademark.