
A young German woman in New York is sheltered unwittingly by a vicious criminal until she has a chance encounter with a society woman who adopts her..
Abraham J. Danzinger
United States

The first time you see Jennie Goldstein’s face—half-child, half-catastrophe—illuminated by a single calcium spotlight, you realise why 1913 critics christened her "the Dresden streetlamp": something in her irises flickers between asylum and abyss. Abraham J. Danzinger’s The Lure of New York is not a film that announ...

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

George K. Rolands

George K. Rolands
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" The first time you see Jennie Goldstein’s face—half-child, half-catastrophe—illuminated by a single calcium spotlight, you realise why 1913 critics christened her "the Dresden streetlamp": something in her irises flickers between asylum and abyss. Abraham J. Danzinger’s The Lure of New York is not a film that announces its grandeur with trumpets; it sneaks, like a pickpocket’s blade, between the ribs of Victorian moral certainty. Shot on wintry mornings in Fort Lee when the Hudson still carr..."

