- Slim Cody works in the movie industry, doubling for the performers. He has a dream in which he portrays Romeo in a movie version of "Romeo and Juliet, " and arranges for someone to double for him when the fight scenes get scary.
- Cowpoke Sam Cody is in love with Lulu Foster but has a rival in Steve Woods, a handsome soda jerk in the village drugstore. As a remedy for his awkwardness, Sam is advised to study techniques of making love in the movies. In Hollywood, he gets work as a double for the villain, and having been battered before the camera in a fight, he resigns at the mention of a retake. Then, given the part of a lover, he fails and is dismissed. Back in Arizona, he has nothing to show for the trip, and Lulu orders him away until he can love her as Romeo loved Juliet. He acquires a copy of Shakespeare's play, and, falling asleep, has a dream in which he and his friends take on character parts with swashbuckling sword fights and strenuous wooing scenes. Awakening, he mingles the eloquence of Romeo with brute strength and sweeps Lulu off her feet.—Pamela Short
- This film is full of witty one-liners, topical jokes (for 1921), and sardonic humor. In a small Western town, a girl is wooed by two suitors. Sam is a solid cowboy (we even get to see the cows), but not romantic at all. His intended tells him he needs to learn to love like Douglas Fairbanks (presumably in his pre-Zorro character). His friends deck him out like a Hollywood cowboy, and he goes to Hollywood, where he does stunt doubling in a serial. There are a number of in-jokes, and scenes of Hollywood film making, but Sam learns nothing. On his return, she tells him that the man who wins her must make love like Romeo. After reading Romeo and Juliet, he has a dream in which he plays Romeo in a parody of the play, filled out with surprisingly high-budget sets and crowds.
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