
Henry Everett is confined to an insane asylum when he refuses to sacrifice his invention to a powerful rubber trust. Richard Trevor, the son of trust magnate Silas Trevor, becomes involved with Henry and his sister Edith, when he mistakenly picks up a baggage claim check meant for the detective Edith has hired to help her brother.

George Allan England, June Mathis
United States

A single sliver of stamped brass—no larger than a nickel—sparks the conflagration that is The Brass Check. George Allan England and June Mathis turn this humble object into a loaded gun, a skeleton key, and a love letter all at once. The film, released in the waning months of World War I, arrives like a scalpel slid ...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Will S. Davis

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" A single sliver of stamped brass—no larger than a nickel—sparks the conflagration that is The Brass Check. George Allan England and June Mathis turn this humble object into a loaded gun, a skeleton key, and a love letter all at once. The film, released in the waning months of World War I, arrives like a scalpel slid between the ribs of Gilded-Age capitalism; it exposes not merely the venality of monopolies but the quieter cruelty of filial loyalty when inheritance is soaked in blood money. Di..."

