Editing Wild and Woolly (1917 film) (section)

==Reception==
Like many American films of the time, ''Wild and Woolly'' was subject to cuts by [[Film censorship in the United States|city and state film censorship boards]]. The Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of the intertitle "Say, that's a chance for us to clean up big," all scenes of the Indian Agent and Indians with a basket containing flasks of liquor, the three intertitles "Whoop it up and all you capture is yours," You watch every door of the hotel and after I get the girl you kill," and "They can't hurt you, their guns are loaded with fake bullets," scene where Fairbanks is shot, an Indian shoots a man, four scenes of Indians falling after being shot, and the shooting of the express messenger, taking his keys, and the rifling of the express box.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=5 |issue=3 |page=33 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=July 14, 1917 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald05exhi |access-date=November 8, 2014}}</ref>

Edward Wietzel offered the following in his contemporaneous review for [[The Moving Picture World]]: "A cow in a clover field, a cat with a catnip ball or a monkey with a bushel of peanuts never had a more enjoyable time than the gloom-dispersing Mr. Douglas Fairbanks extracts from each of the situations in the photoplay. Most of these situations are not new, but the method of their working out is frequently novel and often exceedingly funny."<ref>{{Cite book |last=New York |first=Chalmers Publishing Company |url=http://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor32newy |title=Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1917) |date=1917 |publisher=New York, Chalmers Publishing Company |others=Media History Digital Library}}</ref>

Fairbanks biographer [[Jeffrey Vance]], writing in 2008, believes ''Wild and Woolly'' "is the finest of the surviving Fairbanks-Emerson-Loos collaborations and perhaps the best of the thirteen films he made for Artcraft. It was also one of Fairbanks's personal favorites."<ref>Vance, Jeffrey. Douglas Fairbanks (Berkeley, 2008), 47. {{ISBN|978-0-520-25667-5}}.</ref>