Tex, a famous detective, recounts the story of how he went into the crime business: While visiting his old friend, Jack Nelson, a dispute breaks out between Nelson and his butler. Later that night, Nelson is murdered, and the next morning the murder weapon, a knife, is discovered next to the body.
Tex didn’t choose the gumshoe life; the gavel slammed it on him like a coffin lid. Tom Collins’s Circumstantial Evidence—a 1920 one-reel marvel now whispered about in archivist circles—plays like a fever dream stitched from soot, nitrate, and moral vertigo. The film, barely the length of a modern sitcom episode, dis...
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" Tex didn’t choose the gumshoe life; the gavel slammed it on him like a coffin lid. Tom Collins’s Circumstantial Evidence—a 1920 one-reel marvel now whispered about in archivist circles—plays like a fever dream stitched from soot, nitrate, and moral vertigo. The film, barely the length of a modern sitcom episode, distills the entire philosophical marrow of noir decades before the term existed: how a single, misread gesture can reroute destiny, how justice can be a blindfolded child groping for..."
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