Parodies those writers who turn out “best sellers” of the West, drawing upon their imaginations and what “local color” they have been able to absorb from Pullman car windows. Marcellus Peckinpaw, so goes the tale, is the celebrated author of “the Lure of the West.” He is offered a handsome sum by the president of the Titan Motion Picture Company for the film rights to his masterful novel. Peckinpaw insists that he be allowed to oversee the screening of his remarkable story. Accordingly, when Director Jimmy Montague is ready to proceed with the selection of the types for the picture, Peckinpaw arrives at the studio—and bad luck camps on Monty’s trail. Buck fills Peckinpaw’s ears with stories of the ferocious deeds of Peter Lone Wolf, a real Indian, who is a member of the company. In reality, the Indian is fully as civilized as Peckinpaw, but he leads himself with enthusiasm to Parvin’s plan. At last Buck has the hated author in a highly nervous state. Then, one day, in the distance is heard a rumbling roar, swelling into a whoop. Over the hill, in full war-paint and feathers, rushes Peter Lone Wolf. The company scatters. In the mad scramble, Peckinpaw alone fails to reach a place of safety. The Indian singles him put, and with tomahawk in air pursues the little man. Up hiss, down dale and across the plain, Lone Wolf chases Peckinpaw. Several hours after dark, a weary and bedraggled author crawls into camp and makes his way to the director’s tent. There he overhears Peter Lone Wolf disparaging in fluent and well- chosen English Peckinpaw’s book and his “Pullman impressions” of the West. The writer catches the words, “When I was at Harvard,” and realizes that he has been duped. He decides to return East where his reputation is still unimpaired. Buck agrees to split the fifty with the Indian. - Reel Life
One of the Buck Parvin and the Movies series.
It is another of those side-splitting “Mustang” comedies that has jumped from “The Saturday Evening Post” into moving pictures. - Motion Picture News, December 18, 1915