from Facebook: Taken in the Old West

Horse, daughter, what’s the difference? It’s all a man’s property.

Well, in all fairness, it’s not like abduction of female kinfolk was a rare theme in Western movies and literature before this movie came along. I seem to recall a certain John Ford film in which the abduction of a man’s niece by American Indians played a substantial role in the plot. And even British author Arthur Conan Doyle could not resist adding a subplot concerning female abduction in his Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet — only in his case, the culprits proved to be Mormons.

That said, this project does sound like the type of thing that only a Seth MacFarlane fan could love.

It was also once acceptable to have white people in blackface in movies. Times change.