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Flower of Doom
(Rex Ingram, United States, 1917, 35mm, 70 min)
New 35mm print!
Live Score by Jason Staczek and Ian Moore
UCLA Festival of Preservation
Monday May 14 at 7 PM
Though he was given a modest budget for The Flower of Doom, Rex Ingram seized the chance to dig into his favorite setting - the shady urban jungle - which he worked into a Chinatown mystery. Journalist Harvey Pearson is sucked into a den of underground warfare and opium addiction when he sets out to rescue Neva Sacon, a cabaret singer kidnapped by gang lords. The fact that it's a silent film is vastly overshadowed by Ingram's attention to visual detail, which made him a legend, and The Flower of Doom shows the legend as he was coming into his own.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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