Jack Craigen, an engineer who has just finished a construction job in South Africa, returns to New York. There, at the home of his Uncle Cannell, he meets stage-struck society girl Helen Steele and her playwright fiancé Tracey.
The roaring year of 1920 coughed up a sardonic cocktail of jazz, gin, and suffrage headlines; into that tinderbox Paramount Pictures flung The Misleading Lady, a silent rom-com that pretends to be a drawing-room lark yet harbors the pulse of a sex-war manifesto. Viewed a century later, the film feels like a mischievou...
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" The roaring year of 1920 coughed up a sardonic cocktail of jazz, gin, and suffrage headlines; into that tinderbox Paramount Pictures flung The Misleading Lady, a silent rom-com that pretends to be a drawing-room lark yet harbors the pulse of a sex-war manifesto. Viewed a century later, the film feels like a mischievous ghost waltzing through our so-called progressive living rooms, pinching our assumptions about consent, courtship, and comedic violence. Let’s be blunt: the plot is Pygmalion tos..."
Bert Lytell
Paul Dickey, Lois Zellner, Charles W. Goddard
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