Jules Grandin, a woodsman, finds McRae, a prohibition agent, seriously wounded. He calls for help in taking care of him, from Rose LeBarbe, sister to Ann, his sweetheart.
The celluloid reels of 1926 still smolder in the vaults of forgotten Americana, yet none glow quite so eerily as Frank S. Beresford’s Beware of the Law, a moonshine-marinated morality play that drips resinous paranoia into every splice. Shot on location amid Michigan’s snow-bruised pines, the film exhales a chill tha...
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" The celluloid reels of 1926 still smolder in the vaults of forgotten Americana, yet none glow quite so eerily as Frank S. Beresford’s Beware of the Law, a moonshine-marinated morality play that drips resinous paranoia into every splice. Shot on location amid Michigan’s snow-bruised pines, the film exhales a chill that predates the urban fatalism of later noir; its silhouettes are already entombed in perpetual twilight, faces half-swallowed by the maw of the forest. Woodsmoke & Whiteness: ..."
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