Steven Ghent (Ian Keith) decides to sell the mine he's owned for fifteen years, located at the border of Mexico where the Great Divide ends. To celebrate he attends a fiesta where he meets a racy young woman (Dorothy Mackaill). But because he is dressed in a Mexican costume, she assumes he is Mexican. After he sings a song she wonders why he's lost his accent. As the two dance, she draws the ire of a jealous local girl (Myrna Loy) who loves Keith.
After he realizes that Mackaill is the daughter of his dead partner, he is appalled that she has become a flapper and travels around with a crowd of moochers. He decides to kidnap her and take her into the great open spaces of the American West. Slowly, she comes to love the country and him.
Dorothy Mackaill is beautiful and has a nice breezy delivery, sort of a cross between Barbara Stanwyck and Evelyn Brent. Ian Keith is good here and reminds me a lot of John Gilbert in his line delivery. Myrna Loy was still stuck in her "exotic" period but is fun as the flashy Manuella. Co-stars include Creighton Hale, Lucien Littlefield, Claude Gillingwater, George Fawcett, and Jean Lorraine.
This was filmed in 1915 with Ethel Clayton and House Peters and in 1925 with Alice Terry and Conway Tearle.
After he realizes that Mackaill is the daughter of his dead partner, he is appalled that she has become a flapper and travels around with a crowd of moochers. He decides to kidnap her and take her into the great open spaces of the American West. Slowly, she comes to love the country and him.
Dorothy Mackaill is beautiful and has a nice breezy delivery, sort of a cross between Barbara Stanwyck and Evelyn Brent. Ian Keith is good here and reminds me a lot of John Gilbert in his line delivery. Myrna Loy was still stuck in her "exotic" period but is fun as the flashy Manuella. Co-stars include Creighton Hale, Lucien Littlefield, Claude Gillingwater, George Fawcett, and Jean Lorraine.
This was filmed in 1915 with Ethel Clayton and House Peters and in 1925 with Alice Terry and Conway Tearle.