The Sunshine Trail

The Sunshine Trail is a 1923 American silent comedy Western film directed by James W. Horne and written by Bradley King. The film stars Douglas MacLean as Jimmy McTavish, Edith Roberts, Muriel Frances Dana, Rex Cherryman, Josie Sedgwick, and Al Hart. The film was released on April 23, 1923, by Associated First National Pictures. A review in Variety noted:From start to finish the picture satirizes and burlesques the Pollyanna theme. [...] [Jimmy McTavish's] one motto in life is "scatter seeds of kindness," etc., a guiding slogan conned from an illustrated post card. And so like all well-meaning humans who plan their kindnesses with purpose aforethought, his good intentions go astray and involve him in several embarrassing complications while he is traveling the "sunshine trail." [...] While practising one of his Pollyanna principles at a way station in minding a young child, he finds himself with the lad on his hands and so must continue his journey with a juvenile burden. Also, with the best of intention to assist an "eloping" couple who are in reality heads of a band of crooks, he effects the criminals' escape [...] although later he is solely responsible in foiling their hold-up

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