If you are the kind of person who needs a legal thriller to actually follow the rules of law, you should probably skip Name the Woman. It is 1928 filmmaking at its most frantic, right on the edge of the sound era, where the acting is getting a bit more natural but the plots are still stuck in that heavy, Victorian melo...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Erle C. Kenton
Edward LeSaint
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"If you are the kind of person who needs a legal thriller to actually follow the rules of law, you should probably skip Name the Woman. It is 1928 filmmaking at its most frantic, right on the edge of the sound era, where the acting is getting a bit more natural but the plots are still stuck in that heavy, Victorian melodrama mode. But if you like watching people in impeccably tailored suits point fingers at each other in cavernous rooms, it’s a decent way to spend an hour. The whole thing hinges..."
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Erle C. Kenton, Elmer Harris, Peter Milne
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