
Kerry falls in love with Amy and saves her life in a surfboard race though his foot is bitten by a shark. Dr.


The celluloid landscape of the 1920s often oscillated between the slapstick and the sublime, but few films managed to bridge the gap between visceral spectacle and existential dread as effectively as Feet of Clay. Directed with the characteristic opulence of the era, the film serves as a haunting reminder that even o...

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

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille
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" The celluloid landscape of the 1920s often oscillated between the slapstick and the sublime, but few films managed to bridge the gap between visceral spectacle and existential dread as effectively as Feet of Clay. Directed with the characteristic opulence of the era, the film serves as a haunting reminder that even our most celebrated heroes possess a structural weakness—a point of failure that the world, or a hungry predator, will eventually find. Rod La Rocque portrays Kerry with a physical ..."

Theodore Kosloff
Bertram Millhauser, Beulah Marie Dix, Margaretta Tuttle
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