Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.
Acting
Fay Tincher's swaggering, pants-wearing proto-tomboy energy.
Costume
Ann's transformation from chaps to frilly dresses and back.
Editing
Breakneck silent-era pacing that modern comedies fear.
Director
Al Christie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made before the Hays Code neutered Hollywood, this unapologetically queer-coded heroine could punch, pursue, and reject marriage without punishment.
Director Al Christie cranked out hundreds of one-reel comedies; this surviving fragment is a rare glimpse of Fay Tincher's stardom before she vanished from film history.
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