Jack Pratt’s 1915 one-reeler arrives like a tintype soaked in kerosene: modest in dimension, yet once the spark catches, it radiates surprising heat. Within a scant twelve minutes, A Man's Making distills the entire Protestant ethic of early American capitalism—self-fashioning through labor, the scarlet stain of past ...
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" Jack Pratt’s 1915 one-reeler arrives like a tintype soaked in kerosene: modest in dimension, yet once the spark catches, it radiates surprising heat. Within a scant twelve minutes, A Man's Making distills the entire Protestant ethic of early American capitalism—self-fashioning through labor, the scarlet stain of past sins, the terror that tomorrow’s bread depends solely on today’s moral bookkeeping. William H. Turner embodies this angst with little more than a greasepaint moustache and eyes th..."
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