Summary
In 'A Yankee Go-Getter', director James Young navigates the treacherous waters of identity and economic precariousness through the odyssey of Barry West. A literati in distress, West is stripped of his mechanical quill—a stolen typewriter—and cast into the unforgiving urban sprawl. This picaresque journey takes a sharp turn toward the surreal when a found pocketbook introduces a motif of the uncanny: two women of indistinguishable visage laying claim to the same artifact. This bifurcated reality propels West into a Machiavellian arrangement with Nicholas Lanza, where the price of financial salvation is a matrimonial union with Lucia Robilant. The narrative spirals into a gothic conspiracy as a political usurper, Vera, replaces the kidnapped Lucia. Through subterranean architectural secrets and a harrowing realization of his own domestic entrapment, West must navigate a labyrinth of deception to dismantle Lanza’s hegemony and reclaim the woman who mirrors his own fragmented aspirations.
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Struggling young author Barry West's typewriter is stolen, and he is evicted from his room. Setting out in search of adventure, he finds a pocketbook, which is claimed by two almost identical women. Unable to decide which is its owner, he loses touch with both of them. In applying to Nicholas Lanza for a job, which involves marriage to Lanza's niece, Lucia Robilant, Barry is startled to recognize her as one of the claimants. Unknown to Barry and Lucia, Nicholas, in league with Vera Robilant, a political plotter, plans that they will marry so as to secure Lucia's legacy. Vera succeeds in having her henchmen kidnap Lucia and installs herself in the Lanza home. Barry discovers a secret passage and uncovers the plot after marrying Vera. Then, following the gang's arrest, he is reunited with Lucia, his true love.
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