Shocked by his daughter's flirtatious behavior at a party in his home, Robert Endicott takes her on a trip to the Canadian Northwest. While fishing, she is unwittingly drawn into the rapids, and Grimshaw, her father's engineer, attempts to rescue her.


The Primal Crucible: A Re-evaluation of Empty Hands (1924) Cinema in the mid-1920s was often preoccupied with the friction between the lingering Victorian moralities and the burgeoning hedonism of the flapper era. Empty Hands, directed by Victor Fleming and adapted by Carey Wilson from Arthur Stringer’s prose, stand...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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" The Primal Crucible: A Re-evaluation of Empty Hands (1924) Cinema in the mid-1920s was often preoccupied with the friction between the lingering Victorian moralities and the burgeoning hedonism of the flapper era. Empty Hands, directed by Victor Fleming and adapted by Carey Wilson from Arthur Stringer’s prose, stands as a fascinating, almost anthropological study of this generational collision. While many films of the era, such as Gimme, focused on the fiscal and social anxieties of modern ma..."
Carey Wilson, Arthur Stringer
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