
Alys Gilson leaves the complacency of her parents' home to move to the big city and partake in the lofty ideals espoused by the Culture Club. As a member of this Bohemian group, Alys succumbs to the influence of Peyton Le Moyne who preaches that marriages should be founded on absolute freedom.

Albert Payson Terhune, Elizabeth Mahoney
United States

The Square Deal arrives like a cracked champagne bottle hurled across a century: effervescent, wasteful, startlingly relevant. Director Charles Giblyn, armed with a scenario from Albert Payson Terhune and Elizabeth Mahoney, stitches a cautionary sampler for Jazz-Age dreamers who assume affections can be renegotiated ...


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" The Square Deal arrives like a cracked champagne bottle hurled across a century: effervescent, wasteful, startlingly relevant. Director Charles Giblyn, armed with a scenario from Albert Payson Terhune and Elizabeth Mahoney, stitches a cautionary sampler for Jazz-Age dreamers who assume affections can be renegotiated as breezily as a lease. The film’s DNA—equal parts romantic melodrama and social satire—anticipates the marital deconstructions of Judge Not and the symbolic pyrotechnics of Fiamma..."


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