On the usual thread of romance in this kind of Mack Sennett comedy, are hung a series of amusing situations, and one of the most original is where one of the "fighting gentlemen" attempts to keep the tail of the cow he is milking still by tying it to his suspenders. When the cow takes fright and decides to make her getaway it is easy to imagine what happens.

Mack Sennett’s 1920 one-reeler Let ‘er Go is less a narrative than a sackful of barnyard booby traps rigged to detonate on cue; yet within its 18-minute sprint there pulses a demented affection for human clumsiness and animal agency that still feels startlingly modern.Picture, if you can, the standard pastoral romance:...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

James D. Davis

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"Mack Sennett’s 1920 one-reeler Let ‘er Go is less a narrative than a sackful of barnyard booby traps rigged to detonate on cue; yet within its 18-minute sprint there pulses a demented affection for human clumsiness and animal agency that still feels startlingly modern.Picture, if you can, the standard pastoral romance: bashful swain, coy milkmaid, rival belle fluttering her parasol. Now imagine Cupid’s arrow rerouted through a cattle chute. Sennett, ever the mischievous deity of silent comedy, y..."
Billy Armstrong
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