
Daniel Esmond, an English writer, discovers he has a half-sister who is a gypsy. He joins a gypsy clan to find her, and eventually becomes chief of the clan.

Oscar Apfel, Monte M. Katterjohn
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Oscar Apfel and Monte M. Katterjohn weld Victorian guilt to Balkan firelight in a film that should have rotted in a Kansas vault, yet crackles on like a stubborn coal. Imagine, if you can, a Britain still coughing up the soot of Dickensian fog while the jazz age is merely a distant crackle on foreign headphones. Int...

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Oscar Apfel

Oscar Apfel
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" Oscar Apfel and Monte M. Katterjohn weld Victorian guilt to Balkan firelight in a film that should have rotted in a Kansas vault, yet crackles on like a stubborn coal. Imagine, if you can, a Britain still coughing up the soot of Dickensian fog while the jazz age is merely a distant crackle on foreign headphones. Into this liminal soot strides Daniel Esmond—played with brittle hauteur by William Farnum—clad in a Norfolk jacket so aggressively English it could apologize on its own. The camera l..."

