A bridegroom's friend gifts him a bottle of booze, and then alerts the police, in order to win the bride for himself..

Picture a brittle 78-rpm record spinning in the dark: the needle drops, and the crackle that follows is the sound of trust fracturing. Goin' Thro' the Rye—that deceptively pastoral title—belongs to a 1923 one-reel cyclone where matrimony collides with malice inside a scant twelve minutes. The film survives only in fr...

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Harold Beaudine

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" Picture a brittle 78-rpm record spinning in the dark: the needle drops, and the crackle that follows is the sound of trust fracturing. Goin' Thro' the Rye—that deceptively pastoral title—belongs to a 1923 one-reel cyclone where matrimony collides with malice inside a scant twelve minutes. The film survives only in fragmentary prints, yet what remains is a distillation of every primal fear that stalks the aisle: that the person handing you the ring today might tomorrow slip handcuffs around you..."
Scott Darling, Frank Roland Conklin
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