Editing Victor McLaglen (section)

==Activism==
In 1933, he founded the California Light Horse Regiment, which included a "riding parade club, a polo-playing group and a precision motorcycle contingent".<ref name="Parker">{{cite news |author=Parker, Stanley|title=Victor McLaglen: Tinker, Tailor...Poor Man, Rich Man |work=Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |date=5 November 1937 |access-date=22 September 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001857/19371105/039/0034| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He described it in a press interview as promoting "[[Americanism (ideology)|Americanism]]". He said it was organized to fight communists and others "opposed to the American ideal", both inside and outside the country. McLaglen was attacked by some on the left as fascist, which he denied. He said he was a "patriot of the good old-fashioned American kind".<ref name="Critchlow">{{cite book|last1=Critchlow|first1=Donald T.|title=When Hollywood was right : how movie stars, studio moguls, and big business remade American politics|date=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0521199186|pages=35–36|edition=1}}</ref>