
In Germany, young Marie Louise's foster parents commit suicide rather than face charges of treason. Marie emigrates to the US, but when she gets there she is met with contempt and suspicion because of her German nationality.

Ink, Iron, and Incrimination Few canvases of late-World-War-One cinema seethe with such bruised chromatics as The Cup of Fury. What could have ossified into a jingoist tract instead pulses—through tinting, through Clarissa Selwynne’s scleral tremors—with the ache of split belonging. Rupert Hughes, that indefatigable...


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" Ink, Iron, and Incrimination Few canvases of late-World-War-One cinema seethe with such bruised chromatics as The Cup of Fury. What could have ossified into a jingoist tract instead pulses—through tinting, through Clarissa Selwynne’s scleral tremors—with the ache of split belonging. Rupert Hughes, that indefatigable polymath, distills Europe’s trauma into a dockside parable where every rivet is a syllable of loyalty and every hiss of escaping steam a sigh for shattered homelands. The picture..."
Richard Schayer, Rupert Hughes
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