The Soul Herder is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by John Ford, and featuring Harry Carey.

[1] The film was premiered in Dayton, Ohio, on August 3, 1917.

[2] Like many American films of the time, The Soul Herder was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards.

The Chicago Board of Censors ordered cut scenes showing the shooting of a clergyman, a man muffling a girl in a bedroom, killing a man outside a house, and the closeup of a dead man.

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