Three Word Brand (35mm Nitrate Print)
“As an actor, director, and to a lesser degree as a writer, (William S. Hart) brought to the Western both realism and a rugged poetry. His films, the motion picture equivalents of the paintings of Frederic Remington and the drawings of Charles M. Russell, represent the very heart and core of that which is so casually referred to as Hollywood's ‘Western tradition.'.... Three Word Brand was an unusual film, in which Hart played three different roles, the hero's role, that of his father, and that of his brother. The hero's role was a title role deriving from the character's clipped speech in three-word sentences (“Get out, quick!” or “Go to hell!”). The part was colorful and Hart had many opportunities to differentiate the three characters, one of which was the stoic Governor of the State. He played each part to the hilt, and he was aided by some first-class camera work.” Everson and Fenin, The Western