
After being unfaithful to "The Stranger", who committed a murder on her account, Cherry Millard, known as "The Siren", leaves to work in a dance hall in the Western town of Nugget. When Burt Hall arrives in town to deliver a will to the heirs of Bruce McClade, he is captivated by Cherry, who learns of Burt's mission.

Donald I. Buchanan, Walter Archer Frost
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A nitrate fever dream shot through with kerosene flares, The Siren (1917) survives only in rumor, paper records, and a handful of tantalizing stills—yet the mythic after-burn it leaves on the mind rivals any extant masterpiece. Donald I. Buchanan and Walter Archer Frost lace their scenario with venomous irony: a woman...

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" A nitrate fever dream shot through with kerosene flares, The Siren (1917) survives only in rumor, paper records, and a handful of tantalizing stills—yet the mythic after-burn it leaves on the mind rivals any extant masterpiece. Donald I. Buchanan and Walter Archer Frost lace their scenario with venomous irony: a woman whose voice never registers on the soundtrack nevertheless sings men into moral free-fall. That conceit alone catapults the picture beyond melodrama into a pre-Joycean meditation ..."

