The defense attorney who was unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the prosecutor..

A hush falls, the kind that rustles through velvet drapes when the house lights dim and the projector’s carbon-arc begins to sing. What follows is not the comfort of moral certainty but its annihilation—The Master Mind detonates the very notion that law and justice share a heartbeat. Shot in the feverish winter of 1...

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

Kenneth S. Webb

Bruno Ziener
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" A hush falls, the kind that rustles through velvet drapes when the house lights dim and the projector’s carbon-arc begins to sing. What follows is not the comfort of moral certainty but its annihilation—The Master Mind detonates the very notion that law and justice share a heartbeat. Shot in the feverish winter of 1919 yet released the following spring, this 83-minute nitrate dagger has slipped through the cracks of collective memory, but its after-image lingers like phosphor burn behind eyel..."
Alma Aiken
David Daniel Cohen, Kenneth S. Webb
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