A young man has to masquerade as an interior decorator in order to ease his way into the home of his beloved. All goes well till a couple of amateur paper-hangers mess up things till the house is far from neat and very gaudy.
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The first time I saw Neat But Not Gaudy I was wedged into a folding chair at a dilapidated bijou where the projector clattered like a coffee grinder; the print, speckled and sun-bleached, still detonated with enough chromatic madness to leave my retinas humming. Ninety-odd years after its quiet birth, this 1924 trifle...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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" The first time I saw Neat But Not Gaudy I was wedged into a folding chair at a dilapidated bijou where the projector clattered like a coffee grinder; the print, speckled and sun-bleached, still detonated with enough chromatic madness to leave my retinas humming. Ninety-odd years after its quiet birth, this 1924 trifle feels less like a quaint curio and more like a dare—an invitation to watch propriety get mugged by absurdity while love tap-dances through the wreckage. James Harrison embodies t..."
