
Shy, timid banker Florian Amidon is assaulted, robbed, and knocked out while on vacation. When he wakes up he discovers that he's in the booming oil town of Bakerstown, has no memory of how he got there--and that there's a five-year gap in his life from the time he was robbed until that moment.

Herbert Quick, Christy Cabanne
United States

The cinematic landscape of 1915, a nascent art form still finding its voice amidst the clamor of a rapidly changing world, occasionally yielded narratives of such profound psycholo...
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