Swindler Harry Carey gets driven out of New York, then Laredo, and keeps on heading west, until he becomes mayor of a small town, taking care of his daughter, Jean Rouverol, and making a pal out of Tim Holt.
If you think about Carey playing Judge Roy Bean, Holt playing Billy the Kid, and Evelyn Brent playing Lily Langtree in a long and whopper-filled plot that leads to the two of them winning the gunfight at the OK Corral, it all makes a rough sort of sense, as well as why they changed all the names for this definitely A Western. The movie is lavishly, almost wastefully cast, with Clarence Kolb, Paul Guilfoyle, Esther Muir, and George Irving.
It's fun, but I'd swap all the rest of it for more scenes of Carey grinning as he tells his tall tales about Kolb and Miss Brent introducing him to President Garfield.
If you think about Carey playing Judge Roy Bean, Holt playing Billy the Kid, and Evelyn Brent playing Lily Langtree in a long and whopper-filled plot that leads to the two of them winning the gunfight at the OK Corral, it all makes a rough sort of sense, as well as why they changed all the names for this definitely A Western. The movie is lavishly, almost wastefully cast, with Clarence Kolb, Paul Guilfoyle, Esther Muir, and George Irving.
It's fun, but I'd swap all the rest of it for more scenes of Carey grinning as he tells his tall tales about Kolb and Miss Brent introducing him to President Garfield.