![]() Reef Women's Rexa Sandal,White/Brown,7 M US $27.95 I love Reefs and these are typical but extra feminine. No support on the bottom, like some of the sturdier/athletic reefs, but these aren't meant to be like that. ![]() Cp156wbr, Hand Crocheted White Color Gimp Skull Cap with Crocheted Dark Brown Gimp Rose for Women, Teens and Petites. $26.00 Hand Crocheted White Color Gimp Skull Cap with Crocheted Dark Brown Gimp Rose for Women, Teens and Petites. ![]() The Wind [VHS] $29.98 The Wind (Victor Sjostrom, 1927) One of Victor Sjostrom's final pictures in America (thanks to studio meddling that led to a changed ending that satisfied no one who actually worked on the film), The Wind, released just before the emergence of talkies, was solid evidence that the era of the silent film was not entirely behind America. Lillian Gish stars as Letty Hightower, who leaves Virginia to come stay on her cousin's "beautiful ranch" in Texas. On the train out, she meets Wirt Roddy (Northwest Passage's Montagu Love), a slick cattleman who laughs at her wide-eyed naivete about the conditions in Texas. When she gets there, she finds he's right; the sere land is constantly blasted by a wind she loathes and fears. When her cousin's wife Cora (Dorothy Cumming) becomes jealous and sends her packing, she is forced to marry rancher Lige Hightower (Sjostrom regular Lars Hanson). The rest of the film documents, alternately, the ranchers' struggle to make the land workable despite the wind and Letty's downward-spiraling mental state. Do yourself a favor and stop watching five minutes before the end of this movie. (It is rumored copies with the original ending still exist, but I haven't been able to track one down.) If you ignore the ending, insisted on by the studio after it bombed in front of a test audience, this is fantastic. The ethereal Gish is a wonder to watch on the screen, and Hanson and Love are perfect foils for one another. But the film's most notable presence is the wind itself, constant and implacable, driving the threads of the narrative before it. Incredible, and well worth seeking out. **** ? |
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