Alec Lloyd is a cowboy who has successfully managed to arrange romances for other lovesick cowhands, but has a lot more trouble managing his own love life..


The first time we see Alec Lloyd, he is upside-down—boots skyward, head grazing sagebrush—hogtied by his own romantic circuitry. That visual gag, delivered in a single iris-shot, announces Cupid the Cowpuncher as both rodeo revue and emotional rodeo: a film that refuses to decide whether it is lampooning love or lamen...

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" The first time we see Alec Lloyd, he is upside-down—boots skyward, head grazing sagebrush—hogtied by his own romantic circuitry. That visual gag, delivered in a single iris-shot, announces Cupid the Cowpuncher as both rodeo revue and emotional rodeo: a film that refuses to decide whether it is lampooning love or lamenting it. Director Clarence Badger—working from Eleanor Gates’s barn-burner of a stage play—understands that the Western myth is already half parody. So he cranks the parody up unt..."
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