Cowboy Simplex Cox, now a drifter and odd-job seeker, lands the assignment of chaperoning the pretty daughter of cattleman "Five-Notch" Arnett. Laura Arnett has a weakness of falling in love with every man she meets---Simplex Cox the exception---and it is Simp's job to keep her from meeting any.

Platinum under the sagebrush, venom under the smile Nobody strolls out of The Galloping Kid unaltered; the picture simply refuses to let its characters—or its viewers—remain static. Released in the volcanic bloom of 1922, this Paramount sleeper lands like a mesquite thorn beneath the fingernail of the traditional We...

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

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" Platinum under the sagebrush, venom under the smile Nobody strolls out of The Galloping Kid unaltered; the picture simply refuses to let its characters—or its viewers—remain static. Released in the volcanic bloom of 1922, this Paramount sleeper lands like a mesquite thorn beneath the fingernail of the traditional Western, inflaming every trope it brushes against. Director William James Craft—often dismissed as a studio journeyman—here conducts a chamber piece of emotional mining rights, letti..."
William Henry Hamby, Andrew Percival Younger, Arthur F. Statter
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