A city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills..

Marion H. Kohn, Grace Cunard
United States

Moonshine vapors coil like ghost-ribbons through Appalachian ravines while a federal she-wolf in silk stockings trades her city perfume for gun-oil and pine.The celluloid of A Daughter of 'the Law'— brittle as winter sycamore bark—survives only in fragmentary 35 mm cans at the Library of Congress, yet what fumes remain...

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Grace Cunard

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"Moonshine vapors coil like ghost-ribbons through Appalachian ravines while a federal she-wolf in silk stockings trades her city perfume for gun-oil and pine.The celluloid of A Daughter of 'the Law'— brittle as winter sycamore bark—survives only in fragmentary 35 mm cans at the Library of Congress, yet what fumes remain are potent enough to intoxicate any historian who dares inhale. Grace Cunard, triple-threat star-writer-producer, distills a narrative mash equal parts temperance pamphlet and ero..."


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