The Fight for the Water Hole is a film that demands you bring your own canteen. It is a dry, physically taxing piece of silent cinema that discards the usual gallantry of the genre in favor of a blunt, repetitive struggle for a hole in the ground. If you are looking for the sweeping vistas of later Westerns, look elsew...
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"The Fight for the Water Hole is a film that demands you bring your own canteen. It is a dry, physically taxing piece of silent cinema that discards the usual gallantry of the genre in favor of a blunt, repetitive struggle for a hole in the ground. If you are looking for the sweeping vistas of later Westerns, look elsewhere. This is a claustrophobic film shot in a wide-open space.Is this film worth watching?Only Western completionists and those interested in the early career of Priscilla Bonner w..."
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