Chesterfield - John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton. Miljan plays a famous crook who awakens in a posh mansion.
Is it worth your hour? Honestly? Only if you have a weird itch for early 30s poverty row cinema. If you dig that grainy, stagey aesthetic where everyone talks like they are trying to be heard in the back row of a theater, you will probably be fine. If you hate movies where the plot moves like molasses stuck in a radiat...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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"Is it worth your hour? Honestly? Only if you have a weird itch for early 30s poverty row cinema. If you dig that grainy, stagey aesthetic where everyone talks like they are trying to be heard in the back row of a theater, you will probably be fine. If you hate movies where the plot moves like molasses stuck in a radiator, stay away. John Miljan is our guy here. He plays a crook who wakes up in a mansion, and suddenly he is the man of the house. It is the kind of setup that feels like a rejected..."
Robert Ellis, Anthony Coldeway
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