
Andrew Jackson Cavanaugh is a young man in the small town of Vixville. He is entranced with a young woman, but doesn't make enough money to make an impression on her.

The first time Andrew Jackson Cavanaugh spots Phyllis through the apothecary window, the film itself seems to blush: a warm amber bloom creeps across the frame, as though the nitrate stock were surrendering to the heat of his gaze. That blush is the key to Nineteen and Phyllis, a 1924 confection so fragile it feels ...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Joseph De Grasse

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" The first time Andrew Jackson Cavanaugh spots Phyllis through the apothecary window, the film itself seems to blush: a warm amber bloom creeps across the frame, as though the nitrate stock were surrendering to the heat of his gaze. That blush is the key to Nineteen and Phyllis, a 1924 confection so fragile it feels assembled from sighs and unpaid rent. Director Joseph De Grasse, moonlighting from his usual Lon Chaney chillers, trades gothic gloom for something more insidious: the pastel cruel..."
Bernard McConville, Isabel Johnston, Frederick Stowers
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