He raised her as a joke, then fell for her. Silent film morality? Absolutely unhinged.
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Direction
Borzage turns small-town gossip into visual poetry.
Cinematography
Golden-hour fields that make laziness look aspirational.
Acting
Buck Jones's shrug contains multitudes.
Director
Frank Borzage
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Buck Jones was a real cowboy before Hollywood—his lazy slouch was method acting from actual ranch exhaustion.
The 1925 audience ate up this guardian-ward romance without blinking; Hays Code was still years away from policing this chaos.
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