Something New (1920)
8/10
Something Old, Something New!
29 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"Amazing! Simply amazing!" These are the words I would use in describing this unique movie which features a long series of seemingly impossible stunts performed by a vintage Maxwell. It would seem that Jack Benny was right on target in choosing a Maxwell after all. That car can zip along and go anywhere and do anything? Bounce over rugged rocks, nearly double its size? No problem! Navigate hills, streams, sand, desert, impossible rock barriers and impassable passes? Climb aboard! Outrun pursuing bad guys and their horses across deserts, streams and rock-strewn mountainsides? All in a day's work - or rather in a speedy sixty minutes or so's work!

Producer/director (with husband Bert Van Tuyle), Nell Shipman is a decidedly game and really attractive lass whom I've not encountered before, but I'm now looking forward to viewing her "Trail of the North Wind" which is available as an extra attraction on Alpha's very watchable DVD.
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