Snub is a park dandy, chasing butterflies and flirting with the girls. His adventures take him to a restaurant, where he gets into numerous difficulties and he finally winds up in jail.
The first time I encountered All Lit Up I was half-drunk on midnight espresso, projector humming like a trapped bee. What unfurled was not mere slapstick but a chiaroscouro of desire: a man hunting wings of color while blind to the cages he already carries. Harold “Snub” Pollard, that red-haired corkscrew of kinetic ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Fred C. Newmeyer
Lloyd Ingraham
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" The first time I encountered All Lit Up I was half-drunk on midnight espresso, projector humming like a trapped bee. What unfurled was not mere slapstick but a chiaroscouro of desire: a man hunting wings of color while blind to the cages he already carries. Harold “Snub” Pollard, that red-haired corkscrew of kinetic anxiety, turns the city park into a proscenium of courtship rituals so primitive they feel alchemical. Butterflies—those tiny stained-glass lies—flit above Victorian flowerbeds, an..."
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