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Imagine, if you will, a drawing-room comedy that has swallowed a cyanide capsule and waits politely for the froth to turn the color of old lace. Too Wise Wives is that film: a society melodrama which pretends to comfort its corseted heroines while actually eviscerating the very institution that keeps them corseted. S...

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" Imagine, if you will, a drawing-room comedy that has swallowed a cyanide capsule and waits politely for the froth to turn the color of old lace. Too Wise Wives is that film: a society melodrama which pretends to comfort its corseted heroines while actually eviscerating the very institution that keeps them corseted. Shot in 1920, released in the spring of 1921, and buried for decades beneath the celluloid rubble of more flamboyant Roaring Twenties fare, this quietly incendiary chamber piece now..."
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