Director: Pál Fejős
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Leslie Fenton, Fred MacKaye, Eddie Boland,
Plot: A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Disk discovery: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928) from Criterion
For several years now, there have been dire predictions of the inevitable demise of movies on disk. In a world rapidly assigning more reality to the digital “cloud” than to actual physical objects, disks are supposedly quaintly old-fashioned. […]