
Psychiatrist Dr. Ulrich Metz attempts to drive Daniel Brown to suicide.

Victor Fleming, Thomas J. Geraghty, Douglas Fairbanks
United States

Victor Fleming’s 1919 phantasmagoria *When the Clouds Roll by* operates on two wildly divergent yet mesmerizing frequencies—a taut psychological thriller wrapped inside a featherlight comedic soufflé. Douglas Fairbanks, flexing creative muscles as co-writer and star, presents Daniel Boone Brown as a neurotic everyman...


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" Victor Fleming’s 1919 phantasmagoria *When the Clouds Roll by* operates on two wildly divergent yet mesmerizing frequencies—a taut psychological thriller wrapped inside a featherlight comedic soufflé. Douglas Fairbanks, flexing creative muscles as co-writer and star, presents Daniel Boone Brown as a neurotic everyman whose nerves jangle like loose change in a tin cup. His vulnerability becomes playground and battleground for Dr. Ulrich Metz (Herbert Grimwood, oily perfection), a psychiatrist e..."

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