This is a nicely-tinted William S. Hart film has been blown up from 16mm to 35mm. Hart is run out of a Western town on a rail because of his constant bar-room brawls. He takes a job in New York as a "baby-sitter" for a rich, spoiled young man (Arthur Shirley) who is constantly drinking and getting into barroom brawls. The boy has written some incriminating love letters to old flame Seena Owen, and Hart is tasked with retrieving the letters. Owen runs a pancake restaurant in New York, and Hart instantly is smitten with her, while eating many, many pancakes. He believes that Owen loves Shirley, and literally forces Shirley to propose to her. This is where Hart's Victorian values fail him with modern audiences, because who would want to marry someone who was literally hog-tied, kidnapped, and forced to propose at gunpoint?
Review of Branding Broadway
