Algie, the Miner - 1912
Billy Quirk
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TCM: Screened Out -- The Early Years
"Gay Representations in Film Week"
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In Algie the Miner, a 1912 one-reeler from pioneer producer Alice Guy-Blaché, a young man (Billy Quirk doing something of a limp-wristed "nance" routine) is obliged to prove machismo to his prospective father-in-law. Off to the West he goes, learning first that one does not thank gunslingers by kissing them.
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