

Spoiler-rich excavation ahead. If you prefer your sanctities un-splintered, bookmark and return after viewing. The first miracle of The Veiled Mystery is that it exists at all: a 1920 Southwest Gothic shot on location in Santa Fe when the town still smelled of pinõn smoke and adobe dust, financed by the fly-by-nigh...

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" Spoiler-rich excavation ahead. If you prefer your sanctities un-splintered, bookmark and return after viewing. The first miracle of The Veiled Mystery is that it exists at all: a 1920 Southwest Gothic shot on location in Santa Fe when the town still smelled of pinõn smoke and adobe dust, financed by the fly-by-night Vitagraph Western unit and dumped into regional circulation with no pressbook beyond a single sepia postcard of star Antonio Moreno clutching a lace veil like a matador’s muleta...."
Cyrus Townsend Brady, C. Graham Baker, Albert E. Smith
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