
A professor aims to prove the Darwinian theory correct with a wild beast brought up in the jungles. The creature, named Darwa, is taken to civilization where society accepts her as a woman and a young aristocrat falls in love with her.
Charles Logue
United States

To traverse the landscape of 1919’s A Scream in the Night is to embark upon a journey through the fractured psyche of a post-Victorian world obsessed with the burgeoning tenets of evolutionary biology and the terrifying malleability of the human form. This is not merely a relic of the silent era; it is a ...
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Leander De Cordova

Leander De Cordova
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" To traverse the landscape of 1919’s A Scream in the Night is to embark upon a journey through the fractured psyche of a post-Victorian world obsessed with the burgeoning tenets of evolutionary biology and the terrifying malleability of the human form. This is not merely a relic of the silent era; it is a transgressive cinematic artifact that interrogates the very essence of the soul. Directed with a palpable sense of atmospheric dread, the film functions as a precursor to the 'mad ..."


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