
Ann reluctantly agrees to leave her beloved New York City to accompany her sick brother on a trip out West, which he must take for his health. There she meets hunky ranch foreman Bob Raymond.
Joseph F. Poland
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The first image Joseph F. Poland gifts us is a diagonal slash of elevated track against a nickelodeon-night sky: New York as electric as nerve endings. Cut to a sanatorium window where Ann—Josephine Earle’s porcelain face quivering with metropolitan arrogance—accepts exile to the frontier. One senses the film itself ...

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" The first image Joseph F. Poland gifts us is a diagonal slash of elevated track against a nickelodeon-night sky: New York as electric as nerve endings. Cut to a sanatorium window where Ann—Josephine Earle’s porcelain face quivering with metropolitan arrogance—accepts exile to the frontier. One senses the film itself inhaling coal smoke, then exhaling dust. The tonal whiplash is deliberate; the celluloid seems to sweat soot, then bleed ochre. In 1925, when most westerns were still Saturday-mati..."


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