Shootin' for Love

{{short description|1923 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Shootin' for Love

| image = Shootin' for Love (1923) - 1.jpg

| caption = Advertisement with the title as Shooting for Love

| director = Edward Sedgwick

| producer =

| writer = Albert Kenyon
Raymond L. Schrock
Edward Sedgwick

| starring = Hoot Gibson

| cinematography = Virgil Miller

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1923|06|28}}

| runtime = 50 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

}}

Shootin' for Love is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and featuring Hoot Gibson.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/ShootinForLove1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: Shootin' for Love] at silentera.com Gibson plays a World War I veteran suffering from shell shock who at his father's ranch becomes involved in a dispute over water rights that leads to gunfire.{{cite book |last=Langman |first=Larry |title=A Guide to Silent Westerns |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1992 |location=Westport, Connecticut |page=406 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC |isbn=0-313-27858-X}}{{cite book |last=Cox |first=Caroline |editor-last=Micale |editor-first=Mark S. |editor2-last=Lerner |editor2-first=Paul |editor3-last=Rosenberg |editor3-first=Charles |title=Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |chapter=Invisible Wounds |year=2001 |page=295 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOdu8X99oAYC |isbn=0-521-58365-9}} The British Board of Film Censors, under its then-current guidelines, banned the film in 1923.[https://web.archive.org/web/20191227214101/https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/shootin-love-1923 British Board of Film Classification record for Shootin' for Love]