The Latest in Pants is less a film than a champagne saber hurled at Victorian propriety, a celluloid cackle that clocks you with a velvet glove before you notice the blood on the sequins. Clocking in at a lean twenty-two minutes, this 1920 one-reeler distills the entire decade’s impending seismic shift—corsets torche...
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" The Latest in Pants is less a film than a champagne saber hurled at Victorian propriety, a celluloid cackle that clocks you with a velvet glove before you notice the blood on the sequins. Clocking in at a lean twenty-two minutes, this 1920 one-reeler distills the entire decade’s impending seismic shift—corsets torched, bootleg gin guzzled, and gender norms yanked inside-out like a pocket on laundry day. Director-writers Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran, silent comedy’s resident saboteurs, stage the r..."
Eddie Lyons, Lee Moran
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