Wild and Woolly (1917)

Directed by

John Emerson

Genre

comedy film, Western film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 12m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Easterner who loves cowboy stories travels to the West and pretends to be a rough tough cowboy. He gets into trouble when he is mistaken for a real Western hero and is forced to live up to the role.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulbreezycomedicearnestnostalgicadventurous

What happens

Wild and Woolly is a 1917 American silent Western comedy film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from cowboy-obsessed Easterner to Western tough guy. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell and Sam De Grasse. The film was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter and was directed by John Emerson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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