
Young scientist Anthony Osgood is engaged to Persis Meade, who has postponed their marriage several times after becoming interested in an overseas hero through Red Cross correspondence. Meanwhile, gambler Lorenzo Pascal stumbles upon the hero's suitcase and goes to Persis' home impersonating him.


A laboratory, a letterbox, and a suitcase walk into a silent picture… The Sins of St. Anthony is not a sermon—though its title genuflects toward hagiography—but a cracked mirror held up to post-WWI courtship, where courtship itself is a shell game. Director Charles Collins and scenarist Elmer Harris stitch a patchwork...

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" A laboratory, a letterbox, and a suitcase walk into a silent picture… The Sins of St. Anthony is not a sermon—though its title genuflects toward hagiography—but a cracked mirror held up to post-WWI courtship, where courtship itself is a shell game. Director Charles Collins and scenarist Elmer Harris stitch a patchwork of masquerade, masochism, and modernist rhythm onto a canvas barely 65 minutes wide. The result feels like a Joseph Cornell box left too close to a Victrola: fragile, glittering, ..."
Elmer Harris, Charles Collins
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