A fiddle-playing mama's boy tames the Wild West? Yes, really. No, he's not good at it.
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
Acting
Charles Ray's googly-eyed panic is genuinely endearing.
Production
1925 location shooting in actual dusty nowhere.
Director
Roy William Neill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Charles Ray was a huge 1910s star who crashed financially by 1923; this was his attempted comeback.
The 'effeminate Easterner conquers West' trope peaked here before sound films made it harder to sell.
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