Little Red Decides

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Jack Conway

Writers

William M. McCoy

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

24 February 1918

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Jean Hersholt

  Sour Milk

• 

  Alice Davenport

  Widow Bolton

• 

  Frederick Vroom

  Col. Ferdinand Aliso

• 

  Jack Curtis

  Tony Gilroy

• Barbara Connelly

  Little Red

• Goro Kino

  Duck Sing

• Frank MacQuarrie

  Parson Jones

• Nellie Anderson

  Mrs. Jones

• Curley Baldwin

  Foreman