
Imar the Servitor rescues an American tourist who has lost his way in the desert and the two men become friends. Before he leaves, the American gives his friend a picture of his fiancée.

Daniel Carson Goodman
United States

The 1914 one-reeler Imar the Servitor arrives like a shard of obsidian lodged in the century’s gullet: jagged, reflective, and unexpectedly sharp beneath its patina of nitrate fade. Director-writer Daniel Carson Goodman, better known then for scandalous novels pulped with erotic charge, here trades ink for magnesium...

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John B. O'Brien

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" The 1914 one-reeler Imar the Servitor arrives like a shard of obsidian lodged in the century’s gullet: jagged, reflective, and unexpectedly sharp beneath its patina of nitrate fade. Director-writer Daniel Carson Goodman, better known then for scandalous novels pulped with erotic charge, here trades ink for magnesium light, distilling a tangled novella into a scant twelve minutes that nonetheless feel cavernous. The resultant film—shot in Fort Lee when sand dunes were trucked in to mimic Arabi..."


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