Peter Kennedy, a pernicious landlord who desires his tenant, Nora McCree, realizes that the only way to possess Nora is to eliminate her husband Patrick. To accomplish this, Kennedy arranges a fight between Patrick and another man, in which the latter is badly wounded.
L.V. Jefferson
United States
Rarely does a one-reel picture from 1914 feel as if it is inhaling the very soot of Victorian anxiety, but In Slumberland achieves that acrid intimacy. Shot in the winter of 1913 on the frost-bitten back-lots of Santa Barbara, the film marries Gothic landlordism to imperial shell-shock long before either trope became ...
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" Rarely does a one-reel picture from 1914 feel as if it is inhaling the very soot of Victorian anxiety, but In Slumberland achieves that acrid intimacy. Shot in the winter of 1913 on the frost-bitten back-lots of Santa Barbara, the film marries Gothic landlordism to imperial shell-shock long before either trope became fashionable. The resultant artifact is a fever dream of real-estate tyranny, a story in which property deeds are more erotically charged than any clinch. Visually, the movie begin..."
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