To help raise funds needed to appeal her father's case, Bonnie Day opens a tearoom featuring a group of stranded choristers performing a cabaret revue. The father is in prison because of a trumped-up charge made by some stock swindlers.

Victor Halperin
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A Spirited Brew of Justice and Jazz: Unpacking 'Tea: With a Kick!' Stepping back into the nascent days of cinematic storytelling, Victor Halperin’s 1918 offering, 'Tea: With a Kick!', emerges as a delightful concoction of melodrama, burgeoning entrepreneurship, and the enduring human spirit. This silent-era g...

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Erle C. Kenton

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" A Spirited Brew of Justice and Jazz: Unpacking 'Tea: With a Kick!' Stepping back into the nascent days of cinematic storytelling, Victor Halperin’s 1918 offering, 'Tea: With a Kick!', emerges as a delightful concoction of melodrama, burgeoning entrepreneurship, and the enduring human spirit. This silent-era gem, with its evocative title hinting at both a genteel setting and an underlying verve, captures a specific zeitgeist, blending the sentimental narratives popular at the time with ..."


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