I saw a 35mm black & white film print projected and it was fascinating but the image did jitter in the projector film gate and the story/action jumped in spots. But, I hear that there is a tinted and toned nitrate print that is held by the Library Of Congress but it's starting to deteriorate. I hope it gets preserved in color and soon.
PLOT & SPOILERS:
While Jack Brookfield is entertaining guests at his gambling house in Louisville, young Clay Whipple, who is obsessed by a fear of cat's-eye jewels, is taunted by Tom Denning with a scarf-pin and kills him. Clay, who loves Viola, Brookfield's niece, is then tried and sentenced to death. Brookfield visits Judge Prentice and convinces him that Clay is entitled to a retrial; and he exposes Hardmuth, an attorney seeking the gubernatorial nomination, as involved in the governor-elect's murder. Hardmuth tries to shoot Brookfield, but the latter, through mental suggestion, thwarts him, and in the second trial Clay is acquitted. He is later reunited with the woman he loves.
PLOT & SPOILERS:
While Jack Brookfield is entertaining guests at his gambling house in Louisville, young Clay Whipple, who is obsessed by a fear of cat's-eye jewels, is taunted by Tom Denning with a scarf-pin and kills him. Clay, who loves Viola, Brookfield's niece, is then tried and sentenced to death. Brookfield visits Judge Prentice and convinces him that Clay is entitled to a retrial; and he exposes Hardmuth, an attorney seeking the gubernatorial nomination, as involved in the governor-elect's murder. Hardmuth tries to shoot Brookfield, but the latter, through mental suggestion, thwarts him, and in the second trial Clay is acquitted. He is later reunited with the woman he loves.
