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April Folly

1920 · 50 min Crime
7.0 / 10 · TMDB

April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.

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📋 Film Details

Year 1920
Country United States of America
Genre Crime
Director Robert Z. Leonard
Runtime 50 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.0/10 (2 votes)

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The film constructs a dual reality where fiction and the characters' lives mirror each other. It relies on the 'story within a story' device, exploring the contrast between a quiet office and a perilous journey to blur the line between creative fantasy and tangible threat.

What lingers after the final reel is a charming play on silent-era genre conventions, where romance seamlessly intertwines with crime, delivering a neatly framed conclusion to its nested narrative. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Robert Z. Leonard

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