Anita Loos began her sixty-year writing career in 1912, turning out!nbsp;approximately ninety scenarios before she began her collaboration with Douglas!nbsp;Fairbanks (and director John Emerson). The Fairbanks comedies of the late!nbsp;teens-dealing with health fads, technology, the cult of celebrity, the!nbsp;challenges of manhood-remain remarkably contemporary. Loos's satires of!nbsp;American mores and institutions and cleverly facetious intertitles slyly!nbsp;ridiculed pretense and social hypocrisy (although not quite enough to!nbsp;challenge that era's stereotypes, in the case of tonight's film, of Native Americans). Fairbanks's genial innocence and!nbsp;optimism always kept the mood light.!nbsp;Wild and Woolly, one of several casting Fairbanks as a tenderfoot!nbsp;enraptured by the myth The West, is among the best of the collaboration.!nbsp;The son of a railroad tycoon, he is sent to an Arizona town to assess!nbsp;its suitability as a rail corridor. The locals turn their town into a!nbsp;personalized theme park to impress the unsuspecting West-crazy scion.!nbsp;Modern western reality interferes, but it only enhances the fantasy.-Lee Amazonas