
Dr. Robert Harvey, under the stress of financial difficulties, yields to the charms of Lola Forbes, who becomes enamored of him when he calls to attend her.

The Cradle rocks like a funeral gondola across the black river of post-WWI domestic anxiety, its lullabies sharpened into shivs. Frank Lloyd's 1922 curio—adapted from Eugène Brieux's scalpel-sharp stage piece—opens on Dr. Robert Harvey (Charles Meredith) dissecting a cadaver of debts instead of flesh. Surgical lamps f...

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" The Cradle rocks like a funeral gondola across the black river of post-WWI domestic anxiety, its lullabies sharpened into shivs. Frank Lloyd's 1922 curio—adapted from Eugène Brieux's scalpel-sharp stage piece—opens on Dr. Robert Harvey (Charles Meredith) dissecting a cadaver of debts instead of flesh. Surgical lamps flicker; his fountain pen hemorrhages red ink across unpaid invoices. Enter Lola Forbes (Anna Lehr), a satin-draped neurasthenic whose bedroom eyes gleam with the predatory patience..."
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