Often the photography and editing is really terrific and sophisticated. Sometimes the acting, whatever its expressive style, is really wonderful. Many of these films are stiff, and the plots are either sentimental or obvious.īut there are many reasons to watch a good, or great, silent film. Reviewed by secondtake 8 / 10 Vividly made, early pre-gangster gangster film.Ī lot of people avoid silent films at all costs, and I understand that totally. But can Rolls Royce and Feathers still give it to him? And will the Bull accept? Yet Feathers, prize possession and object of envy, proves his weak point and in the end, Bull Weed will indeed come to need help from others, and more than he has ever needed it before. Living it up in the Twenties with the aid of cool but smouldering moll Feathers, the Bull lords it over the law and his rivals alike - specifically big Buck Mulligan, whose floral-tributes business echoes that of a certain real-life Chicago gangster.
'Nobody helps me - I help them!' boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed, handing over what will prove to be the best investment in his high-spending career: a thousand dollars that will put the literate 'Rolls Royce' of vagrants back on his feet.
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