The Secret Man is a 1917 American silent Western film, directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. Two of the five reels of the film survive at the Library of Congress film archive.
Filming took place under the working titles The Round Up and Up Against It. The film was released by Universal Studios through a subsidiary, UniversalButterfly, in October 1917. It was a silent film on five reels, part of the Cheyenne Harry series of film featurettes.Like many American films of the time, The Secret Man was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of the scene of the jailer dropping the keys before the prisoners cell. ........
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