The original Rocky moved to the woods and brought the drama with him.
A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a world champion boxer who must retire due to an arm injury. He becomes a lumberjack, and becomes involved with the daughter of the owner, but rivals sabotage their operation, and the boxer has to return to the ring to save the owner from bankruptcy and win the hand of the daughter.
Practical Effects
Actual logging camp authenticity—probably shot on location with real axes.
Stunts
Milton Sills doing his own boxing and tree-felling, no doubles needed.
Director
Lambert Hillyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Milton Sills was a genuine intellectual with a philosophy PhD who became one of silent cinema's biggest tough guys—Hollywood's original nerd-to-hunk pipeline.
The lumberjack-as-hero archepe peaked in 1920s cinema when urban audiences romanticized rugged masculinity they were rapidly leaving behind for factory work.
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