Vacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when her father and her sweetheart apparently die in a forest fire. (The father did perish; the sweetheart escaped, crippled, with his blinded Indian guide into the forest to hide his infirmities.
Alright, so _The Little Wild Girl_, from way back in 1928. If you're someone who absolutely *loves* those old silent melodramas that just pile on the drama, twist after twist, then yeah, you're probably gonna have a pretty good time with this one. For anyone else, especially if you prefer things a bit more... grounded?...
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"Alright, so _The Little Wild Girl_, from way back in 1928. If you're someone who absolutely *loves* those old silent melodramas that just pile on the drama, twist after twist, then yeah, you're probably gonna have a pretty good time with this one. For anyone else, especially if you prefer things a bit more... grounded? You might find it a *lot*. It’s a real commitment to the over-the-top. 😅The film starts up in the Canadian Northwest, which sounds nice and simple, right? Wrong. We meet Marie Cl..."
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