In the gold fields of the Canadian Northwest, a man is falsely accused of a crime and determines that a lookalike is responsible..
Glacial fog slides off the frame in the very first shot of The River’s End, a 1920 First National thunderclap directed by the prodigiously unsung Victor Schertzinger. The Canadian Northwest is rendered not as postcard panorama but as a crucible of spectral whites and bruise-violets, a place where celluloid itself seems...
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Victor Heerman
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"Glacial fog slides off the frame in the very first shot of The River’s End, a 1920 First National thunderclap directed by the prodigiously unsung Victor Schertzinger. The Canadian Northwest is rendered not as postcard panorama but as a crucible of spectral whites and bruise-violets, a place where celluloid itself seems to shiver. You feel the mercury plummet; you taste the metallic tang of paranoia. This is less a western than a northwestern noir, a genre still embryonic in the silent era, and t..."
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