Jitney bus drivers are stealing business from the streetcar franchise, and work to sabotage the streetcar owner. The streetcar driver and company owner's daughter work together to save the business from ruin.

The year 1923: jazz blares from gramophones, bootleg gin hides in teacups, and the urban soundscape tilts from iron-wheeled canticles toward the sputter of low-rent combustion engines. Take Next Car seizes that zeitgeist, packaging it into a brisk two-reel sprint that feels like inhaling exhaust fumes and rosewater i...

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

J.A. Howe

J.A. Howe
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" The year 1923: jazz blares from gramophones, bootleg gin hides in teacups, and the urban soundscape tilts from iron-wheeled canticles toward the sputter of low-rent combustion engines. Take Next Car seizes that zeitgeist, packaging it into a brisk two-reel sprint that feels like inhaling exhaust fumes and rosewater in the same breath. Director James Parrott—a maestro of controlled chaos—channels his inner anarchist, staging a citywide duel between entrenched municipal metal and the guerrilla e..."
Sammy Brooks
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