Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The Mollycoddle (1920)

United Artists
Directed by Victor Fleming
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Flicker Alley)

Another formulaic Fairbanks vehicle from his pre-swashbuckling days. Here he plays an uptight American on vacation in Monte Carlo. He befriends some young Americans, and before you know it he is chasing a diamond smuggler from Amsterdam to Arizona. Ruth Renick plays an undercover Secret Service agent and is the love interest. Fairbanks' transformation from wealthy bore to wild west hero is a tad too much to ask. He saves an entire Indian tribe from a rock slide in the Big Action finale.

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