
While hunting in the mountains, Larry Armond rescues Ruth, a mountain girl who lives with her guardian, a religious recluse. After her guardian dies, Ruth, who has fallen in love with Larry, goes with her donkey in search of him and by chance comes to his summer retreat in the foothills.

Cecelia Wheat Curry’s screenplay—spun from equal parts hawthorn and nickelodeon—treats class collision like a geologist treats strata: tapping, cracking, holding each layer to the light. The resultant film, Love’s Protégé, may masquerade as a trifle of its era, yet beneath the nitrate bubbles a cauldron of anxieties a...


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Walter Wright

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" Cecelia Wheat Curry’s screenplay—spun from equal parts hawthorn and nickelodeon—treats class collision like a geologist treats strata: tapping, cracking, holding each layer to the light. The resultant film, Love’s Protégé, may masquerade as a trifle of its era, yet beneath the nitrate bubbles a cauldron of anxieties about bloodline, performance, and the American caste masquerade. Director Wilfred Noy, never a household crest, nevertheless marshals a syntax of shadows that recalls the Germanic i..."
Arnold Gray
Cecelia Wheat Curry
United States

1927 · IMDb —


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