Little Red Decides

Overview

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.

Cast

Jean Hersholt

Sour Milk

Alice Davenport

Widow Bolton

Frederick Vroom

Col. Ferdinand Aliso

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Jack Curtis

Tony Gilroy

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Barbara Connelly

Little Red

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Goro Kino

Duck Sing

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Frank MacQuarrie

Parson Jones

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Nellie Anderson

Mrs. Jones

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Curley Baldwin

Foreman