Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health.
A nickelodeon cathedral in 1926 smelled of coal dust and orange peel; when the title card of Beyond the Rainbow flashed like a benediction, audiences were promised transcendence but handed a grenade with the pin half-pulled. Marion’s dilemma arrives inked in copperplate on a resignation letter: sell her body to keep ...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Christy Cabanne
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" A nickelodeon cathedral in 1926 smelled of coal dust and orange peel; when the title card of Beyond the Rainbow flashed like a benediction, audiences were promised transcendence but handed a grenade with the pin half-pulled. Marion’s dilemma arrives inked in copperplate on a resignation letter: sell her body to keep her brother’s lungs breathing rarified ozone, or gamble on a last-second ethical sleight-of-hand. The film, long buried in mislabeled cans, survives only because a projectionist in..."
Eustace Hale Ball, Christy Cabanne, Solita Solano, Loila Brooks
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