The Two-Gun Man

{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Two-Gun Man | image = The Two-Gun Man.jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = David Kirkland | producer = Joseph P. Kennedy | writer = {{ubl|Frances Marion|Stewart Edward White|William E. Wing}} | starring = {{ubl|Fred Thomson|Spottiswoode Aitken|Olive Hasbrouck}} | cinematography = Ross Fisher | studio = Film Booking Offices of America | distributor = Film Booking Offices of America | released = {{film date|1926|06|13}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} [[File:The Two-Gun Man ad in Motion Picture News, 1926.jpg|thumb|262x262px|''The Two-Gun Man'' ad in ''Motion Picture News'', 1926]] '''''The Two-Gun Man''''' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by David Kirkland and starring Fred Thomson, Spottiswoode Aitken, and Olive Hasbrouck.<ref>''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema'', p. 266.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Langman|first=Larry|title=A Guide to Silent Westerns|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1992|pages=474|language=en}}</ref> Only reel 2 of this film is known to have survived as of now.

==Plot== A returning World War I veteran, Dean learns his father is having trouble with cattle rustlers and mortgage payments. The problems take their toll on his father and he passes away. He vows vengeance, however, a woman he rescued from an ambusher persuades him against murder. Instead, he steals back his cattle from the thieves and sells them to the chief rustler before turning over the gang to the sheriff.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Fred Thomson as Dean Randall *Spottiswoode Aitken as Dad Randall *Sheldon Lewis as Ivor Johnson *Frank Hagney as Bowie Bill *Ivor McFadden as Texas Pete *Olive Hasbrouck as Grace Stickley *William Courtright as Dad Stickley *Billy Butts as Billy Stickley *Arthur Millett as Sheriff Dalton *Willie Fung as Quong }}

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==Bibliography== * Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. ''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema''. Greenwood Publishing, 1999. {{ISBN|0-313-30345-2}}

==External links== {{commons category|The Two-Gun Man}} *{{IMDb title|0017495}}

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