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Crimson damask and bruise-violet shadows: those are the first hues that flood the frame of Arthur Rooke’s The Prince Chap, a 1920 silent that somehow slipped through the cracks of cinema’s collective memory like wet paint trickling off a palette. Yet here it is, resurrected on a 4K glow, every flickering intertitle qu...

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William C. de Mille

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" Crimson damask and bruise-violet shadows: those are the first hues that flood the frame of Arthur Rooke’s The Prince Chap, a 1920 silent that somehow slipped through the cracks of cinema’s collective memory like wet paint trickling off a palette. Yet here it is, resurrected on a 4K glow, every flickering intertitle quivering with the same breath that once billowed from Thomas Meighan’s lungs. Meighan, that granite-jawed matinée idol, plays the titular “prince”—not royalty by blood but by the co..."
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