A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll..
Imagine a film print left too close to a campfire: edges curling, nitrate bubbling, images jittering like guilty secrets. That scorched vitality is what The Show feels like a century on—a two-reel stick of dynamite masquerading as a backstage comedy. Norman Taurog and Larry Semon cram more visual invention into twenty...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Larry Semon
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" Imagine a film print left too close to a campfire: edges curling, nitrate bubbling, images jittering like guilty secrets. That scorched vitality is what The Show feels like a century on—a two-reel stick of dynamite masquerading as a backstage comedy. Norman Taurog and Larry Semon cram more visual invention into twenty minutes than most blockbusters manage in two hours, and they do it with nothing but cardboard, greasepaint, and a barnyard fowl rigged to explode. The Anatomy of Pandemonium The ..."
Norman Taurog, Larry Semon
United States
