Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of celebrities that must be accomplished within a set amount of time. She goes through innumerable paths and obstacles to achieve the goal.
Burns Mantle
United States
The celluloid cobblestones of 1915 rattle with newsprint prophecy in How Molly Malone Made Good, a one-reel rocket that feels like a subway grind between Nellie Bly daredevilry and Alice Guy gender guerrilla warfare. Picture the skyline at golden hour: copper-tinted nitrate flickers, a hurdy-gurdy of trolley bells, ...
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" The celluloid cobblestones of 1915 rattle with newsprint prophecy in How Molly Malone Made Good, a one-reel rocket that feels like a subway grind between Nellie Bly daredevilry and Alice Guy gender guerrilla warfare. Picture the skyline at golden hour: copper-tinted nitrate flickers, a hurdy-gurdy of trolley bells, and then—bam!—a carrot-topped colleen bursts through the newsroom doors, her brogue still damp with Atlantic brine. Molly, played with mercury moxie by Marguerite Gale, isn’t askin..."
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