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Wild and Western
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Al E. Christie (Al Christie)
Cast: Fay Tincher [Rosie], Earle Rodney, Neal Burns, Eddie Barry, Eugene Corey (Gino Corrado), Al Haynes, Zelletta Du For
Christie Film Company, Incorporated, production. / Produced by Al E. Christie (Al Christie). Scenario by W. Scott Darling, from a screen story by Frank R. Conklin. / Released October 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [The Motion Picture News, 1 November 1919, page ?] Rosie is a Y.W.C.A. gym instructor in the East. Coincident with her getting a little too rough with one of the girls, knocking her out and being fired from her job as athletic director, Rosie is advised of the fact that she has acquired a piece of real property in the form of the Rough Neck Rancho. There is nothing for her to do but go West, going Horace Greely one better by setting out for the Rough Neck Rancho with the idea of bringing it up right and proper with deft feminine touches. These touches turned out to be deft, but scarcely feminine, inasmuch as they were blows from Rosie’s husky mitt. Naturally, a bunch of bewhiskered and devil-may-care cowboys resented the innovation of a woman manager, and when Rosie ordered the foreman and all the rest of them to shave their mustaches, it was a little too much for hard boiled Bill and his gang of leather-necked cowboys. Rosie imported a bunch of strikebreakers, some of her own girl pals, who were nicely settled in the ranch house. Bad Bill hit upon the brilliant idea of hiring a bunch of Indians to attack the ranch house, scare the wits out of the Eastern young ladies and otherwise maintain the morale of the men folks around Rough Neck Rancho. It was a bad day for the Indians and a worse day for the cowboys, as it turned out, for after Rosie and her cohort of Sure-Shot Susie’s finished mopping off the Indians out of the barricades of windows, and after three or four Indians had bitten the dust after good old-fashioned melodramatic style, the redskins turned around and licked the tar out of all the cowboys for putting them up to such a hazardous undertaking. By this time one or two of the cowboys had fallen for the lure of the women folks and had sacrificed their flowing whiskers, their sole pride and joy, under the telling fire of Cupid’s darts. Red Bill, the burly foreman, was finally vanquished by Rough Neck Rosie in a fist fight which was not exactly fair but thoroughly effective. Bill got the final wallop when he wasn't looking by one of Rosie’s pals planted behind a carpet before which the fight took place. At the end of the second reel of desperate milling Rosie and her pals are victorious and the Rough Neck Rancho settles down to peace and quiet and every clean-shaven cowboy has a little milkmaid on his arm.
Survival status: Print exists in a private film collection; and in the Library of Congress film archive [digital preservation scan].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 10 July 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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