While walking along the street one day, Arthur P. Hampton, an impoverished young doctor, and his chums, Stub Masters and Johnny Stokes, are persuaded to part with their last remaining funds by tag day solicitor Mary Jane Smith, with whom the doctor promptly falls in love.
May Tully and Luther Reed’s Mary’s Ankle (1920) arrives like a champagne cork popped in a hurricane: effervescent, chaotic, impossible to re-cork once the fizz of deception hits the air. The film marries the thrift-shop whimsy of early American slapstick to the drawing-room cynicism of Wildean comedy, all while shimmy...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Lloyd Ingraham
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" May Tully and Luther Reed’s Mary’s Ankle (1920) arrives like a champagne cork popped in a hurricane: effervescent, chaotic, impossible to re-cork once the fizz of deception hits the air. The film marries the thrift-shop whimsy of early American slapstick to the drawing-room cynicism of Wildean comedy, all while shimmying aboard a luxury liner as if He Leads, Others Follow took a detour through When a Man Loves and washed up seasick on the shores of matrimony. Narrative Gymnastics on a Shoestri..."
May Tully, Luther Reed
United States
