Little Red Decides (1918)
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Upon learning that the parents of "Little Red" have died, the cowboys of Colonel Ferdinand Aliso's ranch adopt the boy. Parson Jones and his church committee protest that the child should be brought up in more refined surroundings, but the cowboys, particularly Duck Sing, Aliso's Chinese cook, are so enamored of Little Red that they donate their poker money to the church to placate the congregation. After Little Red catches pneumonia and nearly dies, however, Dr. Kirk insists that the boy either live with the minister or acquire a mother through the marriage of one of the cowboys. While Little Red is recuperating at the parson's home, ranch hand Tom Gilroy courts the only marriageable women in town -- a widow and two spinsters -- but much to his relief, they all turn him down. In the end, Duck Sing and the colonel join forces and legally adopt him.
- Release date
- February 24, 1918
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Barbara Connelly as Little Red
- Nellie Anderson as Mrs. Jones
- Curley Baldwin as Foreman
- Percy Challenger as Little Doc
- Margaret Cullington as Miss Hanly
- Jack Curtis as Tom Gilroy
- Alice Davenport as Widow Bolton
- Maude Handforth as Eliza Squires
- Jean Hersholt as Sour Milk
- Goro Kino as Duck Sing
Crew
- Jack Conway · Director
- William M. McCoy · Writer