A dramatization of the real-life meeting of Al Jennings, the celebrated ex-bandit, with O. Henry, noted writer of short stories, in a drowsy village of Honduras, at a time when the two were able to take part in a revolution brewing just then.
United States
Picture a cantina ceiling fan that turns like a lazy guillotine, each blade ticking off another second of borrowed time. That is the metronome for A Fugitive’s Life, a 1919 one-reeler that somehow crams an entire lifetime of camaraderie and insurrection into thirteen combustible minutes. The film—long thought vanishe...
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" Picture a cantina ceiling fan that turns like a lazy guillotine, each blade ticking off another second of borrowed time. That is the metronome for A Fugitive’s Life, a 1919 one-reeler that somehow crams an entire lifetime of camaraderie and insurrection into thirteen combustible minutes. The film—long thought vanished until a nitrate splice surfaced in a Tegucigalpa flea-market—plays like a fever dream stitched from dime-novel mythology and the sour perfume of tropical decay. Director Al J. J..."
