Peg o' the Mounted (1924)

PEG O' THE MOUNTED  (1924)  ¢ 1/2
    D: Alfred J. Goulding
    Baby Peggy, Bert Sterling, Jack Earle
Baby Peggy Montgomery was a precocious, moon-faced kid who for a few years in the 1920s was a rival to Jackie Coogan as the most popular child star in Hollywood. In this two-reeler, she puts on a miniature Mountie uniform to take on a gang of moonshiners. The storytelling is thin, the slapstick is primitive, and Baby Peggy's acting consists mainly of making faces, mugging for the camera. Not exactly cinema for the ages, in other words, but a chance to watch and wonder what it was that made Baby Peggy such an unlikely attraction. She wasn't that good, really. She wasn't even all that cute.