How Weary Went Wooing (1915)

Miss Satterly, the new schoolteacher, is loved by all the cowboys of the "Flying U" ranch. Weary is shy and only makes the acquaintance of the pretty schoolteacher by main force on the part... See full summary »

Director:

Tom Mix

Writers:

Tom Mix (scenario), Bertha Muzzy Sinclair (story) (as B.M. Bower)

Stars:

Tom Mix, Victoria Forde, Sid Jordan

Cast

Cast overview:
Tom Mix	...	Weary
Victoria Forde	...	Miss Satterly - the New School Teacher
Sid Jordan
Leo D. Maloney
Pat Chrisman
Hazel Page

Storyline

Miss Satterly, the new schoolteacher, is loved by all the cowboys of the "Flying U" ranch. Weary is shy and only makes the acquaintance of the pretty schoolteacher by main force on the part of his cowboy companions. Jack and Emmett write an invitation to Weary to go to a dance, and sign Miss Satterly's name thereto. Miss Satterly finds a rough draft of this note. Weary's run-away horse brings him to Miss Satterly's home. They compare notes and the night of the dance, the cowboys are astounded to see Miss Satterly and Weary together at the dance where Weary is fed ice cream by the schoolteacher, while he tells her how much he loves her.

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Genres:

Short | Comedy

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User Reviews

Mix is star-crazy

Mix loves an actress, and when she comes to shoot on location in his town, he is ready to try anything to approach her: even looking like Ben Hur. But all to no avail. This short subject from the Selig Company and its days shooting out West is actually quite refreshing. The play on the cowboy's inadequate talents as far as movie-making is concerned (and the cowboy's ridicule) shows that Mix seemed to play cowboy from an Eastern perspective, and not really as man of the West (as his wife Olive Stokes suggests in her biography of Tom) -- at least at this early date in his career. In this short, the laugh is on him and on all westerners, identified as backwoods bumpkins ill-equipped to deal with city refinements and city types. But at the same time the film manages to draw a fine line between the nascent realism of western Tom Mix films, and the older, more theatrical, more established type of film-making. The moment when Mix dons a Ben Hur costume and wrestles a cow like an Italian Maciste is thus doubly funny: to make fun of the cowboy the film here uses an image from films with a stronger theatrical tradition, thus making the point that Mix, and the cowboy, is too natural, too real to be an adequate Maciste. Who's laughing now ? The city actors, smart, fast, always ready to pull a good joke on those unsuspecting western boors, play artificial characters in artificial plays that someone as real as Mix will show for what it is -- just cardboard drama.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 September 1915 (USA)

Also Known As:

Weary Goes A-Wooing

Filming Locations:

Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Selig Polyscope Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

11 min

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1