Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his heirs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead.


Look, if you're not already into old movies, especially really old ones from the talkie era's early days, The Right of Way (1930) is probably not for you. It's slow. It's dramatic in that very specific, almost theatrical way they did things back then. But if you do like digging into the past, seeing how stories were to...

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"Look, if you're not already into old movies, especially really old ones from the talkie era's early days, The Right of Way (1930) is probably not for you. It's slow. It's dramatic in that very specific, almost theatrical way they did things back then. But if you do like digging into the past, seeing how stories were told almost a century ago, then yeah, there's something here. It’s a melodrama, pure and simple, and it commits. 🎞️Conrad Nagel, as Charles 'Beauty' Steele, starts off pretty insuff..."
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