To help her husband keep his job, a woman gives in to her employer's advances. When the husband finds out, he kills his rival.
The silent era of cinema is often erroneously characterized by modern audiences as a period of simplistic pantomime and binary morality. However, Kenneth S. Webb’s 1920 magnum opus, The Devil’s Garden, stands as a defiant rebuttal to such reductionist views. This film, a stark adaptation of William Babington Maxwell’...
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Kenneth S. Webb
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" The silent era of cinema is often erroneously characterized by modern audiences as a period of simplistic pantomime and binary morality. However, Kenneth S. Webb’s 1920 magnum opus, The Devil’s Garden, stands as a defiant rebuttal to such reductionist views. This film, a stark adaptation of William Babington Maxwell’s controversial novel, delves into the murky waters of sexual politics, class-based exploitation, and the psychological disintegration of a man pushed to the brink of madness. It i..."
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