Summary
Inside a kaleidoscope of 1918 Manhattan, where gaslight still duels with neon, a bashful bank clerk—played by the elastic-faced Monty Banks—awakens on Christmas Eve to discover that his own shadow has grown a libido. What follows is a hallucinatory roundelay: the clerk’s silk-hatted doppelgänger carouses from rooftop speakeasies to Coney Island’s churning belly, leaving chaos, broken engagements, and a trail of unbuttoned reputations. Meanwhile, the timid original races to stitch the city back together before dawn, armed only with a malfunctioning bicycle, a kleptomaniac goat, and a fiancée who may prefer the devil-may-care duplicate. In the final reel, moonlight refracts through a skylight, splitting the two selves into a prism of possibilities—virtue and appetite no longer enemies but jitterbug partners in the same jittery body.
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