Word: banions
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...what advertisers love to call red-blooded. The romantic part of the story deals with Molly Wingate, whose parents are determined that she will marry the unattractive Sam Woodhull, but who has decided in her own mind that she much prefers the more heroic and less blustering Will Banion. Therefore the major characters have still other worries all the way out from Westport Landing to Oregon than Indians, starvation, freezing, floods, and homesickness. The villain as usual spends his time trying to get a good clean shot at the hero, and the hero spends his time rescuing the fair Molly...
...lickered up" together, and then each take a shot at a mug of whiskey perched on the other's head, just to snow that a man can always trust an old friend, is perfect. We fear though that the hero and the villain left us totally unconvinced. Will Banion was about as graceful as the average opera star, and Sam Woodhull was just too lazy to live. The cast was not up to the setting as a whole, and this seems a shame. However the setting is the important thing in this picture and that is done remarkably finely...