Algie, the Miner
ComedyWesterntransformationbest friendblack and whitegender rolessilent filmlgbtmining campeffeminate man
A playful early silent comedy that uses gender-nonconformity and physical transformation as the engine of its humor, set against a Western mining camp backdrop.
When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.
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