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A century ago, celluloid was still learning how to scream. Clemence Dane and Denison Clift hand the medium a family bible, a marriage certificate, and a straight razor, then step back while the Fairfield clan bleeds across twenty-four frames per second. The film arrives like a frost-bitten letter you find behind the...

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Denison Clift

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" A century ago, celluloid was still learning how to scream. Clemence Dane and Denison Clift hand the medium a family bible, a marriage certificate, and a straight razor, then step back while the Fairfield clan bleeds across twenty-four frames per second. The film arrives like a frost-bitten letter you find behind the wainscoting: ink spidered, sealing-wax cracked, yet able to raise the pulse. British International Pictures shot it in the winter of 1921, between influenza waves and coal strikes..."

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Clemence Dane, Denison Clift
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