THE EVIL EYE

NEW PROJECT: THE EVIL EYE
"Lost" Cliffhanger Serial
Limited Collector's Edition Blu-Ray (US)
$44.00 USD — CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE
Hallmark Pictures, 14 Episodes (1920)
75 Pledges Required — have about 50% so far
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Frank Armstrong (Boxing legend Benny Leonard) is a bank messenger and a gang of grafters led by the "Evil Eye" have planned to take a bank for a million in bonds. "Evil Eye" is a one-eyed man with confederates by the dozen -- blind men, panhandlers and others try every minute to outsmart Armstrong and the bank president, who is father of the heroine, Dora Bruce (Ruth Dwyer). They try to get papers from the champ, aided and abetted by everyone in the neighborhood, but Armstrong out-slugs them and plants them safely in the home of the bank president, at the same time rescuing his daughter from the attentions of the mob.

Stuart Holmes is a cousin of the president and is hand in glove with the schemes, as is his sweetheart, a vampish looking moll who is bunking the president and his family with one hand and slipping the lowdown on their plans to the gang with the other. After flopping in their effort to steal the bonds they kidnap the banker’s daughter from the rear end of a train. Armstrong leaps from it into an auto for a mad chase after the girl. Further crimes and battles follow.

Review: "The photography is excellent and the thrills follow each other like ducks to water. Leonard wisely refrains from trying to act and looks immense in all his scenes. Holmes is villainously excellent and the rest of the supporting company are well-cast and capable. Ruth Dwyer is a sweet, lovable little person as the banker's daughter and though a newcomer in the world of pictures she should go far. Benny looks like a sure thing as a draw and easily cops the honors from all pugilistic and athletic stars who have hopped before the camera. Leonard plays his role with the shadow of a smile hovering around his lips, as though he realized that it was all in fun, and he tears into his work with a businesslike manner that probably explains why he is at the top of the lightweight ladder."

LIMITED EDITION OF 300 COPIES
Transferred from the original 35mm nitrate reels, newly restored & scored
Projected release: June 2026

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