Boston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of terrorists is after the jewels.

A reel of The Face in the Fog once thought cremated by nitrate fire now flickers on my 4K screen, and the first thing that strikes you is the fog itself—not the gauzy studio cotton of later Fox pictures, but a living, breathing malignity that swallows gas-lamps whole. Director Alan Crosland shot half the picture thro...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Alan Crosland

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" A reel of The Face in the Fog once thought cremated by nitrate fire now flickers on my 4K screen, and the first thing that strikes you is the fog itself—not the gauzy studio cotton of later Fox pictures, but a living, breathing malignity that swallows gas-lamps whole. Director Alan Crosland shot half the picture through aquarium glass smeared with petroleum jelly; streetlights bloom like butter-colored amoebas, and every silhouette looks guilty of something. It is 1922, and cinema still believ..."

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