Ann Hunniwell, innocently accompanying Frank Devereaux, her employer's son, to a questionable New York cafe, is arrested in a raid and is photographed by a newspaperman, although Devereaux manages to obtain the negative. Five years later she is the wife of "Lafe" Regan, a man of high character and social standing.
The first time we see Ann Hunniwell she is almost swallowed by cigarette haze and brassy jazz, her eyes two pale moons eclipsed by the camera’s magnesium flare. That split-second burst—half scandal, half prophecy—imprints her face on the city’s retina long before she becomes the immaculate Mrs. Regan. Herbert Brenon,...
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" The first time we see Ann Hunniwell she is almost swallowed by cigarette haze and brassy jazz, her eyes two pale moons eclipsed by the camera’s magnesium flare. That split-second burst—half scandal, half prophecy—imprints her face on the city’s retina long before she becomes the immaculate Mrs. Regan. Herbert Brenon, directing with the kinetic cruelty of a man who has watched reputations combust, lets that photograph hang over the narrative like a guillotine blade. Cut to half a decade later:..."
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