If you have a soft spot for that specific brand of 1920s grime—the kind that looks like it was filmed in a room where everyone was smoking three cigars at once—then The Shady Lady is worth an hour or so of your life. It’s not a masterpiece. It’s barely a coherent thriller. But it has Phyllis Haver, and in 1928, that wa...
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"If you have a soft spot for that specific brand of 1920s grime—the kind that looks like it was filmed in a room where everyone was smoking three cigars at once—then The Shady Lady is worth an hour or so of your life. It’s not a masterpiece. It’s barely a coherent thriller. But it has Phyllis Haver, and in 1928, that was usually enough to keep a theater from emptying out. It’s for the people who like watching the transition era of film, where movies were getting visually darker and more cynical ..."
Joyzelle Joyner
Garrett Graham, Leonard Praskins, Richard L. Thorpe, Jack Jungmeyer, Edward H. Griffith
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