Jason, a naive inventor raised in the country, leaves his sweetheart Rose and goes to New York to sell his ideas, but is promptly robbed of his money and his clothing..
Frederick Irving Anderson, George Elwood Jenks
United States
A country boy’s brain sparks brighter than the marquee lights he’s never seen—until the city devours him whole. Frederick Irving Anderson’s screenplay for The Golden Fleece (1918) is less a linear tale than a fever chart: each reel a fresh spike of hope followed by the plummeting mercury of betrayal. Peggy Pearce, bi...
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" A country boy’s brain sparks brighter than the marquee lights he’s never seen—until the city devours him whole. Frederick Irving Anderson’s screenplay for The Golden Fleece (1918) is less a linear tale than a fever chart: each reel a fresh spike of hope followed by the plummeting mercury of betrayal. Peggy Pearce, billed modestly yet glowing like struck phosphorous, plays Rose—the hometown horizon Jason keeps in his breast pocket. Her single close-up, tinted amber by hands that knew the emotio..."
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