Summary
In a bucolic clearing bordering a dense, primeval forest, a solitary child—Peg—navigates a world of miniature imagination until reality intrudes in the form of a collapsed Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. This exhausted lawman, succumbing to the taxing pursuit of illicit distillers, becomes the unwitting patient in Peg’s absurdist apothecary. With the guileless confidence of youth, she administers a haphazard regimen of liniment and castor oil, a sequence that transforms the cabin into a theater of domestic surrealism. Upon the officer's revival and his revelation of the moonshining scourge, Peg undergoes a metamorphosis from caretaker to vigilante. Donning a mascot-sized Mountie uniform, she embarks on a journey across the Moonshine River, a geographical boundary that separates her innocence from the grit of the outlaw fringe. The narrative shifts from slapstick pastoralism to a high-stakes frontier chase when Peg confronts a quartet of bootleggers. Her capture and subsequent loss of her symbolic uniform set the stage for a climax that tests the 'Mountie always gets her man' ethos, reframing the child-star vehicle as a study in resourcefulness and the ironies of authority.
Synopsis
A child plays in the woods next to an isolated cabin. An exhausted Mountie faints by the cabin, and the child helps him inside to the bed. She gives him a spoonful of liniment and rubs Castor oil on his face. He awakes and tells her he's been chasing moonshiners. She vows to capture them, dons her Mountie mascot uniform, and sets out in pursuit. She gets the draw on three of them, but a fourth grabs her. She continues to follow them past Moonshine River to the moonshiners' hideout. She loses her uniform and is lassoed by the ringleader. A Mountie should always get her man, but is she resourceful enough to turn this into an opportunity?
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