The first time the camera finds Lochinvar McAuslan, the horizon is hemorrhaging molten orange behind him—an operatic sunset that makes his lanky silhouette look like a paper-cutout knight. It is 1923, and Holman Francis Day’s tale of telegraph wires and thwarted patrimony still hums with more voltage than most contemp...
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" The first time the camera finds Lochinvar McAuslan, the horizon is hemorrhaging molten orange behind him—an operatic sunset that makes his lanky silhouette look like a paper-cutout knight. It is 1923, and Holman Francis Day’s tale of telegraph wires and thwarted patrimony still hums with more voltage than most contemporary romances. Edna May Sperl, cast against type as the runaway heiress, glides from satin-shod drawing rooms to cinder-strewn yards without ever losing the tremulous glow that ma..."
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