
A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her.


A nitrate curl of 1920 smoke, Love, Honor and Behave! survives less as a film than as a rumor breathing through stills, trade-quips, and projection-booth gossip. Yet its ghost feels freakishly contemporary: influencer entrapment, revenge porn, the weaponization of a candid shot—only the platform has swapped Instagram...

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F. Richard Jones

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" A nitrate curl of 1920 smoke, Love, Honor and Behave! survives less as a film than as a rumor breathing through stills, trade-quips, and projection-booth gossip. Yet its ghost feels freakishly contemporary: influencer entrapment, revenge porn, the weaponization of a candid shot—only the platform has swapped Instagram for a sepia tabloid spread. Sennett, arch-pope of pratfalls, evidently decided that nothing is funnier than heartbreak when lit by klieg lights. He recruits Gordon Lewis—matinee ..."
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