Amos, a Boston beanery owner inherits a restaurant out West and goes out to make his fortune. Unfortunately, the local card sharps take his last dime and show him up for a tenderfoot.
Amos Crocker’s world smells of navy beans and newspaper-wrapped cod until a solicitor’s letter arrives, announcing that an uncle he never met has bequeathed him a clapboard hash-house somewhere beyond the Missouri. The camera—greedy, predatory—watches him kiss the sooty threshold of his Boston beanery goodbye, a sing...
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" Amos Crocker’s world smells of navy beans and newspaper-wrapped cod until a solicitor’s letter arrives, announcing that an uncle he never met has bequeathed him a clapboard hash-house somewhere beyond the Missouri. The camera—greedy, predatory—watches him kiss the sooty threshold of his Boston beanery goodbye, a single suitcase swinging like a pendulum that will never return to center. The West, sepia-drenched and indifferent, greets him with a dust storm that eats half the frame; by the time..."
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