Jon Mirsalis on Piano. Rediscovered in the Czech Film Archives, with Straight Shooting this is one of two complete films surviving from Ford's 1917-1919 years at Universal Studios. (It was Ford's 14th film, his ninth feature.) Harry Carey, Ford's most frequent early star and collaborator, here plays his laconic character, Cheyenne Harry. The plot is set in motion when Harry walks up to a Frederic Remington painting and enters the scene. There are some choice Ford moments to be savored-like that in which our hero awkwardly carries his true love home in the rain while, in the next shot, his abandoned pal wanders through a darkened saloon. The striking landscape compositions of Ford's pre-Monument Valley days are here, as well as a desert sandstorm that predicts the climax of Three Godfathers (1949), a film Ford dedicated to Carey. (Source: Lomb, Variety)