Francis Ford and Edith Storey in Sir Percy and the Punchers (1911)

Francis Ford

Edith Storey

William Clifford

The punchers of the XL outfit are wild with joy, &apos;cause Mary, the idol of the ranch, is comin&apos; home from college. Billy James is Mary&apos;s special friend, and goes to bring her from the station, but, suffering snakes! Look what&apos;s tra...

William F. Haddock

Sir Percy and the Punchers

A Practical Joke

The boys at the ranch are happy that Edith Storey, the owner&apos;s daughter, is showing up on the Wednesday train, especially the foreman, who intends to ask her to marry him. They&apos;re not happy when Miss Storey gets off the train, because there&apos;s also Francis Ford, a snobby Englishman who makes unwanted advances to the lady. But being westerners, they know how to fix his wagon.

It&apos;s one of the westerns that Georges Melies&apos; brother Gaston produced in Texas. As such it is picturesque, supplied with some fine performers, simple in its plotting, and little advanced over the practical-joke-as-movie from the 1890s; while its two-reel length requires a lot more incidents, the boys are always ready to shoot off their guns, and Miss Storey, who would prove to be a venturesome and excellent actress later in her career -- as would Ford -- doesn&apos;t have enough to do. At twenty minutes it take too long to get its well-prefigured points.

The boys at the ranch are happy that Edith Storey, the owner's daughter, is showing up on the Wednesday train, especially the foreman, who intends to ask her to marry him. They're not happy when Miss Storey gets off the train, because there's also Francis Ford, a snobby Englishman who makes unwanted advances to the lady. But being westerners, they know how to fix his wagon.

It's one of the westerns that Georges Melies' brother Gaston produced in Texas. As such it is picturesque, supplied with some fine performers, simple in its plotting, and little advanced over the practical-joke-as-movie from the 1890s; while its two-reel length requires a lot more incidents, the boys are always ready to shoot off their guns, and Miss Storey, who would prove to be a venturesome and excellent actress later in her career -- as would Ford -- doesn't have enough to do. At twenty minutes it take too long to get its well-prefigured points.

The punchers of the XL outfit are wild with joy, 'cause Mary, the idol of the ranch, is comin' home from college. Billy James is Mary's special friend, and goes to bring her from the station, but, suffering snakes! Look what's traveling with her, his nobs, "Sir Percy Granville," who owns the nearby ranch. This gets Bill's goat for a time, but Mary rides and "ropes" with the punchers, and soon shows them she is the same genuine, good-hearted Mary, and doesn't care a whoop for Sir Percy. Sir Percy insists on sticking around, however, and shows his true nature by striking Mary's younger brother, Bobby, when he defends his sister from insult. Billy James is for perforating Percy at once, but Mary is there with the calm good sense, and fixes up a better scheme to get rid of his highness. Mary arranges to elope with Percy, but Bobby, disguised as Mary, really does the stunt. Sir Percy swallows hook and all, and after a desperate ride to escape the pursuers, he reaches the preacher's house, only to find his intended bride just married to Billy James, and that the lady at his side is Bobby, the kid brother. He is about to strike Bobby again, but Bobby has the 48 caliber drop on him, and makes him march out of the gate through a double line of punchers, each of whom contributes a whole-soled kick to help him along to the tall grass.

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