After wealthy young socialite Myra Hastings ensnares her latest victim, Kent Whitney, the son of an "oil can millionaire," Bob Harkness, one of her rejected suitors, warns Kent of Myra's flirtatious and fickle nature. Together they concoct a scheme to teach her a lesson.


The first time you meet Myra Hastings you swear you can smell Mitsouko perfume and ozone—the scent of lightning about to strike a safe. She glides into a ballroom the way a yacht knife-cuts a moonlit inlet: effortless, inevitable, leaving lesser vessels bobbing in her wake. The Husband Hunter—a 1920 seven-reel firec...

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

Howard M. Mitchell

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" The first time you meet Myra Hastings you swear you can smell Mitsouko perfume and ozone—the scent of lightning about to strike a safe. She glides into a ballroom the way a yacht knife-cuts a moonlit inlet: effortless, inevitable, leaving lesser vessels bobbing in her wake. The Husband Hunter—a 1920 seven-reel firecracker—captures that moment and loops it, like a silver necklace shaken free of its clasp, until pearls scatter everywhere. Paramount released it with modest ballyhoo, yet the pict..."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph F. Poland
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