Friday, June 22, 2012

M'Liss (1918)

Artcraft Pictures
Directed by Marshall Neilan
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)

Mary Pickford has a blast in this western comedy. She's the daughter of a scraggly old miner who sleeps with a bottle under one arm and a hen under the other. Mary decides to take up "larnin" and go to school, mainly because she is interested in the handsome new school teacher. Dad gets killed one day and the school teacher is framed for murder. A rigged jury convicts him, but a friendly deputy helps uncover the real killer. Sentimental and warm, but also hilarious at times, there are some one-liners just begging for sound!

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