
A Jinn's magic helps a poor architect win a professor's daughter..
Thomas Anstey Guthrie, Sidney Morgan
United Kingdom

A London architect uncorks a jinn and learns that every wish carries the freight of its opposite. There is a moment, roughly halfway through Sidney Morgan’s The Brass Bottle, when the camera lingers on a marble sphinx suddenly materialised in Hyde Park. Moonlight glazes its alabaster haunches; behind it, a constable’...

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" A London architect uncorks a jinn and learns that every wish carries the freight of its opposite. There is a moment, roughly halfway through Sidney Morgan’s The Brass Bottle, when the camera lingers on a marble sphinx suddenly materialised in Hyde Park. Moonlight glazes its alabaster haunches; behind it, a constable’s bull’s-eye lantern trembles like a trapped star. That single tableau distils the film’s intoxicating formula: Edwardian restraint pitched headlong into Arabian Nights delirium. V..."


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