Janet Randall, a department store clerk who longs for a fling at high society, ignores the love of the poor but honest Dan Cassidy. When vacation time comes, Janet goes to a fashionable hotel and there meets her idol, society favorite Monte Moreville.
The Triflers arrives like a frostbitten valentine from 1924, its nitrate heart still beating under a brittle ribbon of society gossip. You can almost smell the face powder and bootleg gin through the flicker—director David Butler and scenarists Hal Hoadley & Joseph F. Poland translate a shop-girl’s daydream into a mo...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Christy Cabanne
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" The Triflers arrives like a frostbitten valentine from 1924, its nitrate heart still beating under a brittle ribbon of society gossip. You can almost smell the face powder and bootleg gin through the flicker—director David Butler and scenarists Hal Hoadley & Joseph F. Poland translate a shop-girl’s daydream into a moral X-ray: what happens when you mortgage identity for admittance into the ballroom, only to discover the orchestra is a player-piano and the champagne flat? Plot Deconstructed: C..."
Hal Hoadley, Joseph F. Poland
United States
