A cowboy courts a four-time widow to save a town from temperance—what could go wrong?
Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands....
Acting
Will Rogers' cowboy charm before talkies claimed him.
Production
A vanished film—exists now only as delicious legend.
Director
Clarence G. Badger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film is considered lost—no prints known to survive, making every review a reconstruction from contemporary trade papers.
Prohibition began the same year this released, making its boozy plot immediately transgressive. The widow's body count played as dark comedy before the Hays Code sanitized such morbid jokes.
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