
Bradley, an engineer, becomes a Tahiti beachcomber after the collapse of a bridge he built. Murdock, a former employer of Bradley, arrives on the island with his lovely daughter Diana, who wagers with a guest of the governor-general that she could dress the lowest outcast in good clothing and pass him off as a gentleman.

The lights dim, the tinting flares umber, and suddenly we’re adrift on a postcard that has begun to rot at the edges. Man and Woman—that 1917 one-reel wonder now resurrected by an Italian archive—opens with the fatal yaw of iron: a bridge snaps like a wishbone, sending miniature locomotives and ant-sized humanity into...


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" The lights dim, the tinting flares umber, and suddenly we’re adrift on a postcard that has begun to rot at the edges. Man and Woman—that 1917 one-reel wonder now resurrected by an Italian archive—opens with the fatal yaw of iron: a bridge snaps like a wishbone, sending miniature locomotives and ant-sized humanity into the abyss. Cue the intertitle, scrawled in the spidery grammar of panic: “Fault-lines sleep inside ambition.” It’s the kind of aphorism that feels minted yesterday, though it’s pu..."
Charles Logue
United States

1920 · IMDb —
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