Bing Howard a former stockbroker, is called the "Night Wind" because he is a fugitive from justice, persistently being trailed by Clifford Rushton, a private detective who has framed Howard on a bond robbery. Rushton's failure to catch Howard forces the chief to turn the case over to Detective Katherine Maxwell, alias "Lady Kate," whose brother was sent to prison for bond robbery on the same evidence Rushton has brought against Howard.
The Kinetic Desperation of the Night Wind In the pantheon of early 20th-century cinema, few figures embody the frantic energy of the wrongly accused quite like Bing Howard in Alias the Night Wind. This 1923 silent thriller, adapted from the prose of Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, serves as a searing indictment of a jus...
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" The Kinetic Desperation of the Night Wind In the pantheon of early 20th-century cinema, few figures embody the frantic energy of the wrongly accused quite like Bing Howard in Alias the Night Wind. This 1923 silent thriller, adapted from the prose of Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, serves as a searing indictment of a justice system susceptible to the whims of the corrupt. Howard, portrayed with a palpable, jittery intensity by William Russell, is not merely a man on the run; he is a symbol of the ..."
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