Katherine Trowbridge, a rebellious young orphan, lives with her aunt and uncle, the Curtises, who desire a match between Katherine and Weathersbee but pretend to oppose the union, knowing she will be the more likely to accept it. Accidentally discovering their trickery, she leaves home and determines to marry the first man who will have her.


Foreword in flicker-light Silhouettes ripple across nitrate like wind over water; 1922’s They Like 'Em Rough survives only in mottled prints, yet its embers still scorch. What we possess is less a film than a half-remembered fever—frames chewed by vault mice, intertitles scattered like playing cards—but enough remain...

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" Foreword in flicker-light Silhouettes ripple across nitrate like wind over water; 1922’s They Like 'Em Rough survives only in mottled prints, yet its embers still scorch. What we possess is less a film than a half-remembered fever—frames chewed by vault mice, intertitles scattered like playing cards—but enough remains to certify Rex and Irma Taylor’s screenplay as a covert hand-grenade lobbed at polite society. A plot that bites back Katherine’s rebellion is no coy flounce; it is an annihilat..."

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