
Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a "heavenly kick," he breaks the engagement.


Picture, if you can, a celluloid speakeasy where the gin is replaced by nitrate stock and every title card snaps like a snare drum—welcome to The Land of Jazz, a 1920 one-reel firecracker that most historians misfile under ‘lost’ rather than ‘loose.’ Jules Furthman’s scenario barrels along like a taxi jump-cutting cob...

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Jules Furthman

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" Picture, if you can, a celluloid speakeasy where the gin is replaced by nitrate stock and every title card snaps like a snare drum—welcome to The Land of Jazz, a 1920 one-reel firecracker that most historians misfile under ‘lost’ rather than ‘loose.’ Jules Furthman’s scenario barrels along like a taxi jump-cutting cobblestones, while Barbara La Marr—credited here as scenarist, not vamp—laces the absurdity with arsenic-laced sugar. The result is a champagne cocktail of sexual slapstick, asylum s..."
Clarence Wilson
Jules Furthman, Barbara La Marr
United States

1930 · IMDb 6.5


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