Watch The Tornado (1917) Online

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. Read More

Watch The Tornado online. Featuring John Ford and Jean Hathaway, The Tornado is classified as genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 1917. The Tornado was directed by John Ford,Duke Worne. Read Less