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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "cowboys" (4)

That peculiar product of boy-bovine love...

The Great Train Robbery

Edwin S. Porter (director/producer/writer)
Justus D. Barnes (lead)
Broncho Billy Anderson (lead)
Edison (production)

Language: Silent, released in Dec 1903
Minutes: 11

Considered a milestone in film making

Featured elements:

: action; cowboys; crime; emblematic shot; train

Algie The Miner

Alice Guy-Blaché (director/producer)
Harry Schenck (director)
Edward Warren (director)
Billy Quirk (lead)
Solax (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Feb 1912
Minutes: 10

After the broad comedy of "Go West, young sissy", this switches midway into a tale of male bonding (or something like that). In less than a week Algie returns East to claim his bride (who loved him as an effeminate man, so probably will be disgusted with him as a Rough Rider), bringing along his newly bonded male (or something like that) who presumably will play an unspecified role in Algie`s marriage. Seems there is no consensus on who actually directed this - an ambiguity befitting this quirky work.

Featured elements:

: addiction; baptism of fire; comedy; cowboys; gender-bender; male bonding; modernism; prejudice; sexuality; zero to hero

By the Sun's Rays

Charles Giblyn (director)
Lon Chaney (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jul 1914
Minutes: 11

A tragic tale of a cool porkpie cruelly condemned by fate to live as an outcast amongst the grotesque 10-gallon absurdities of "cow-boys" - that peculiar product of boy-bovine love.

Featured elements:

: action; alienation; antihero; cowboys; heroic defender; pathos; persecution; rescue; unrequited love

Broncho Billy And The Greaser

Broncho Billy Anderson (director/lead/writer)
Lee Willard (lead)
Marguerite Clayton (lead)
Essanay (production)

Language: Silent, released in Oct 1914
Minutes: 17

Broncho Billy weighs into the debate on multiculturalism. Definitely not starring Jerry Mathers as "The Greaser".

Featured elements:

: action; comedy; cowboys; ethnic stereotype; fighting; heroic defender; home invasion; rescue; revenge; white flesh lust; white supremacy

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