
Jane sets out to suppress drink, gambling and dance hall viciousness by way of urging her candidacy as mayor. Like all zealots and would-be social reformers, she finds commercialized vice a hard proposition to defeat.
Bayard Veiller, Herbert Hall Winslow
United States

Bayard Veiller’s The Fight arrives like a flickering sermon etched on nitrate, a 1920 prohibition aria that howls against the amber glow of bootlegged bourbon and the syncopated seduction of dance-hall jazz. Yet beneath its temperance-cape beats the pulse of something raw and paradoxically libertine: a spectacle that...

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George W. Lederer

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" Bayard Veiller’s The Fight arrives like a flickering sermon etched on nitrate, a 1920 prohibition aria that howls against the amber glow of bootlegged bourbon and the syncopated seduction of dance-hall jazz. Yet beneath its temperance-cape beats the pulse of something raw and paradoxically libertine: a spectacle that thirsts for the very turpitude it scourges. From the first iris-in, cinematographer W.W. Crimans drowns the frame in chiaroscuro so lustrous you could sip it. Sparks from an elev..."


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