

The blade glints, the customer flinches, and in that heartbeat of hesitation the whole bourgeois illusion peels away like a damp hot-towel. Few one-reelers from 1922 dare to dissect capitalism with a straight-razor, yet Father’s Close Shave does so while lathering its audience in pratfall froth. George McManus, bett...

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" The blade glints, the customer flinches, and in that heartbeat of hesitation the whole bourgeois illusion peels away like a damp hot-towel. Few one-reelers from 1922 dare to dissect capitalism with a straight-razor, yet Father’s Close Shave does so while lathering its audience in pratfall froth. George McManus, better known for Bringing Up Father, trades comic-strip panels for celluloid strips, staging a microcosm of debt, vanity, and blood-red farce inside a barbershop no larger than a posta..."
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