Grace Culver's sharp tongue, has garnered her with the nicknamed "The Wasp." A spirited disagreement with her canning magnate father, John Culver, results from Grace's refusal to marry Kane Putnam, her father's business partner, and she orders her new chauffeur, Tim Purcell, to take her and her maid Miller on a drive.
Willard Mack
United States
The lights drop like a guillotine, the iris-in contracts around Kitty Gordon’s kohl-sharp gaze, and suddenly the nickelodeon of 1918 becomes a hive of silk insults and TNT. The Wasp is a nitrate fever-dream where the stinger is female, the fuse is German, and the hero wears a livery as camouflage for old-money muscle...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Lionel Belmore
Lionel Belmore
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" The lights drop like a guillotine, the iris-in contracts around Kitty Gordon’s kohl-sharp gaze, and suddenly the nickelodeon of 1918 becomes a hive of silk insults and TNT. The Wasp is a nitrate fever-dream where the stinger is female, the fuse is German, and the hero wears a livery as camouflage for old-money muscle. Viewed today, it crackles like a relay station between Victorian parlor wars and jazz-age flippancy—its intertitles venomous, its tints the color of bruised peaches and cordite. ..."
