
Eugene Solari is fanatically jealous of his beautiful wife Enid. While on a mission for her father, she visits Major Trevor.


Jealousy, that green-eyed anatomist, dissects the soul until only sinew and suspicion remain. In The Blood Barrier, director Stanley Olmstead—working from a ferociously melodramatic scenario by Cyrus Townsend Brady—turns a bourgeois drawing room into a crucible where marital trust is smelted into bullets. The film’s ...

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" Jealousy, that green-eyed anatomist, dissects the soul until only sinew and suspicion remain. In The Blood Barrier, director Stanley Olmstead—working from a ferociously melodramatic scenario by Cyrus Townsend Brady—turns a bourgeois drawing room into a crucible where marital trust is smelted into bullets. The film’s prologue, a languid domestic montage bathed in amber tinting, lulls us with hand-holding and lace curtains; within ninety seconds a match-cut to Eugene Solari’s dilated pupil forew..."
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Cyrus Townsend Brady, Stanley Olmstead
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