Tuesday, June 12, 2012

When the Clouds Roll By (1919)

United Artists
Directed by Victor Fleming
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Flicker Alley)

Fairbanks is being manipulated by a psychologist who implants hypnotic suggestions. He is hyper-superstitious and it almost ruins his life. He meets a girl in the park and after a short romance they get engaged. However, her former boyfriend happens to be the same guy Fairbanks is working for, and he's got a plan to use Fairbanks in  a crooked land deal involving her father. She finds out and calls off the engagement, which sends Fairbanks on a tear to make things right. Somehow, it all ends with a flash flood and a marriage on a floating church. The film overuses special effects, and some of the early scenes depicting the events in Fairbanks' mind are just plain silly.

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