Digital resurrection
Digital tools put in service of restoring films from a century ago produce spectacular results with Blu-rays of Carl Th. Dreyer’s uncanny Vampyr (1932) and Louis Feuillade’s serial Tih-Minh […]
Review: Tih-Minh (1919)
Director: Louis Feuillade
Cast: Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot, Édouard Mathé, Louis Leubas,
Mary Harald
René Cresté
Georges Biscot
Édouard Mathé
Louis Leubas
Plot: Jacques d'Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that, unbeknownst to him, contains a coded message revealing the whereabouts of both secret treasures and sensitive government intelligence. This makes him the target of foreign spies, including a Marquise of mysterious Latin origin, a Hindu hypnotist and an evil German doctor, who will stop at nothing to obtain the book.
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