← Back to Cinema Atlas
Discover great cinema and the connections that made it possible.
UNITED STATES · 1916

Unlucky Luke

Frank Borzage
romantic rivalry small town life school teacher male competition coming of age
Stream on Criterion →

Synopsis

Luke Drummond, popularly known as "Unlucky Luke," and Seth Powers, his friend and chum, have a mock quarrel over a new school teacher as to who saw her first. They roll in the dirt to the disgust of the lady herself, who witnesses the bout, though she does not know the cause. Luke and Seth, in common with many other citizens, are unsettled by the charm and grace of the new teacher. The two young m

More from Frank Borzage

United States · Classical Hollywood
Hervé Dumont, Frank Borzage: Sarastro en Hollywood , Festival Inernacional de Cine de San Sebastian Filmoteca España/I.C.A.A./Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
2001 • United States
View →
Robert K. Lightning, “’We Have Secrets’: Borzage, Romance and the Bourgeois State”, CineAction , 46
1998 • United States
View →
Kent Jones, “The Sanctum Sanctorum of Love”, Film Comment , September/October
1997 • United States
View →