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A Florida Enchantment

1914 · 63 min Comedy Fantasy
4.4 / 10 · TMDB

Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian's when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations with a certain wealthy widow staying there. When she can take no more, Lillian discovers a box forgotten at an old curiosity shop in which lies a hundred-year-old secret: a vial of four rare and exotic African seeds that promises to transform whoever swallows one from a woman to a man or vice versa.

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Year 1914
Country United States of America
Genre Comedy, Fantasy
Director Sidney Drew
Runtime 63 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.4/10 (13 votes)

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The film constructs its comedic premise on a fantastical device, using transformation to explore gender norms and social conventions of the era. It relies on silent-era visual gags and situational farce to drive its narrative forward, presenting its ideas with a light, almost whimsical touch.

What lingers after the final reel is a sense of playful audacity—a curiosity from cinema's early days that dared to imagine a world turned upside down through a magical seed. The execution is of its time, but the central conceit remains strikingly unconventional. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Sidney Drew

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