

The first thing that strikes you about Go As You Please is the smell of coal smoke that seems to leak off the screen. Hal Roach, still a year away from launching Harold Lloyd into the stratosphere, crams every frame with the acrid perfume of proletarian struggle—locomotives hiss like dragons, and the city’s electric ...


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" The first thing that strikes you about Go As You Please is the smell of coal smoke that seems to leak off the screen. Hal Roach, still a year away from launching Harold Lloyd into the stratosphere, crams every frame with the acrid perfume of proletarian struggle—locomotives hiss like dragons, and the city’s electric lights buzz like flies around a wound. The film’s title is a taunt: in 1919 America, you may go, but never as you please; the rails, the gates, the frock-coated ushers all insist o..."
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