A 50-minute moral panic about country girls going wild in 1920 Manhattan. Delicious.
Mary Horton, a country girl, moves to New York to make her living as a seamstress, where she meets Hilda Newton, an old neighbor who has renounced her country ways for the immoral life of the city. Mary moves in with Hilda and meets Bob Merrick who, charmed by the girl's innocence determines to protect her.
Costume
The visual shorthand of 'sinful' city fashion vs. humble frocks.
Acting
Alice Brady's wide-eyed innocence is pure silent cinema.
Director
Kenneth S. Webb
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1920 drama captures peak 'rural purge' anxiety as Americans fled farms for cities in record numbers.
Director Kenneth S. Webb was a prolific silent-era workhorse who made over 70 films; most are now lost.
US
