A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.
Eve Unsell, H.A. DuSouchet
United States
A thirty-day fib that echoes across a century Picture the year 1914: Europe is a powder keg with a sizzling fuse, D. W. Griffith is about to fracture cinematic grammar, and somewhere on the Eastern seaboard a modest Lubin production cranks out a compact morality play destined to vanish into the fog of lost silent cin...
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" A thirty-day fib that echoes across a century Picture the year 1914: Europe is a powder keg with a sizzling fuse, D. W. Griffith is about to fracture cinematic grammar, and somewhere on the Eastern seaboard a modest Lubin production cranks out a compact morality play destined to vanish into the fog of lost silent cinema. The Man from Mexico—alliterative, jaunty, evoking both exotic escapism and dime-novel intrigue—survives today only in scattered paper prints, a few brittle stills, and the bri..."
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