A man reads in the newspaper that Bolsheviks are on the loose and that the public should beware of odd acting strangers. He spots a pipe smoking man holding what he believes is a bomb, and thinks he must be one of the Bolsheviks.
Walt Hoban
United States

Imagine a city whose geography is stitched from nightmares: newsprint storm-clouds, trolley bells that clang like jailhouse doors, and a skyline as jagged as broken gin bottles. Into this fever dream lurches our anonymous hero, a man whose morning paper has already detonated inside his skull. The headline—BOLSHEVIKS ...


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" Imagine a city whose geography is stitched from nightmares: newsprint storm-clouds, trolley bells that clang like jailhouse doors, and a skyline as jagged as broken gin bottles. Into this fever dream lurches our anonymous hero, a man whose morning paper has already detonated inside his skull. The headline—BOLSHEVIKS LOOSE—detonates in 96-point Gothic, and suddenly every stranger wears the phantom beard of revolution. Walt Hoban, pulling triple duty as writer and star, plays this average Joe li..."

1920 · IMDb 4.7
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