Harry gets into a very tough neighborhood, without a dime, and finally gets a dollar away from one of the toughest birds in the street. Then he has an awful time keeping it away from the rest of the hard-boiled members of the district.
Tom Buckingham
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Tom Buckingham’s 1920 curio A Dollar’s Worth feels less like a nickelodeon filler and more like a cigarette burn on the silk pocket square of cinematic decency—an 11-minute fuse sizzling between Chaplin’s pathos and the venomous urbanity of later films like 99. Harry Sweet, whose surname proves oxymoronic, incarnate...
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Tom Buckingham
Henry Edwards
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" Tom Buckingham’s 1920 curio A Dollar’s Worth feels less like a nickelodeon filler and more like a cigarette burn on the silk pocket square of cinematic decency—an 11-minute fuse sizzling between Chaplin’s pathos and the venomous urbanity of later films like 99. Harry Sweet, whose surname proves oxymoronic, incarnates the archetypal drifter with the elastic physiology of a cartoon. He vaults across fire escapes, ricochets off brick walls, folds himself into a trombone case—all to safeguard a s..."
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