
Young Kitty runs away from home to avoid marrying a man she doesn't love. Her car breaks down on a country road and she meets Robert, a young artist who has just been turned down by a woman he loved madly and is about to commit suicide by lying on the railroad tracks.

Léonce Perret, Tom Bret
United States

Léonce Perret’s 1923 one-reel whirlwind, long buried in a Parisian archive, surfaces like a champagne bottle uncorked after a century: effervescent, volatile, faintly dangerous. At a breathless twenty-four minutes, The Accidental Honeymoon distills the entire spectrum of Jazz-Age anxieties—patriarchal property rights...


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" Léonce Perret’s 1923 one-reel whirlwind, long buried in a Parisian archive, surfaces like a champagne bottle uncorked after a century: effervescent, volatile, faintly dangerous. At a breathless twenty-four minutes, The Accidental Honeymoon distills the entire spectrum of Jazz-Age anxieties—patriarchal property rights, female bodily autonomy, the artist’s precarious masculinity—into a single moonlit roadside farce. Kitty, played with proto-screwball verve by Elaine Hammerstein, is introduced i..."


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