After her romance with Martin Stuart shatters, Kathleen St. John leaves Montreal for the little village of Montrouge, where she plans to teach school.
Bernard McConville, Bess Meredyth
United States
The first time I watched That Devil, Bateese I was alone in a repurposed grain-shed cinema, the projector’s carbon arc spitting stars onto a wrinkled sheet. By the time the canoe vanished over the lip of the falls, the shed smelled of cedar smoke and my own sweat—proof that a 1918 Canadian potboiler can still detonate...
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William Wolbert
William Wolbert
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" The first time I watched That Devil, Bateese I was alone in a repurposed grain-shed cinema, the projector’s carbon arc spitting stars onto a wrinkled sheet. By the time the canoe vanished over the lip of the falls, the shed smelled of cedar smoke and my own sweat—proof that a 1918 Canadian potboiler can still detonate under the ribs. The film survives only in a 35 mm paper print at Library and Archives Canada, 9½ minutes truncated, yet its emotional aftershock arrives with the blunt force of a ..."
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