During World War I, an illegitimate son of the German Kaiser, who had been raised in the US--and is a double for the the Kaiser's son, the Crown Prince--is sent to Germany as a spy in order to kill both the Kaiser and his son..
Jack Harvey, Cliff Saum
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A Palace of Mirrors, A Heart of Smoke Picture this: 1918 audiences, still coughing on the gunpowder of a world war, watch a film in which the Kaiser’s own seed turns against him. Jack Harvey’s Kaiser’s Finish does not merely flirt with regicide—it slow-dances with it under fractured chandeliers, letting each frame gli...
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" A Palace of Mirrors, A Heart of Smoke Picture this: 1918 audiences, still coughing on the gunpowder of a world war, watch a film in which the Kaiser’s own seed turns against him. Jack Harvey’s Kaiser’s Finish does not merely flirt with regicide—it slow-dances with it under fractured chandeliers, letting each frame glint like a blade pressed against the empire’s pulse. The illegitimate prince, never named beyond “Richard” (Louis Dean), arrives not as a brash Yankee but as a wound in human form: ..."
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