This Day and Age @ Doc Films
On Thursday, April 23 my extraordinarily popular WTF? series continues with a very very rare screening of Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age. "One of the earliest and rarest of DeMille's sound features, This Day and Age is a wild paean to vigilante justice and mob violence masquerading as an inspirational high school story. When a few teenage boys witness the murder of a Jewish tailor at the hands of the local mob, they vow to take revenge by creating a grand coalition of all the high school students to do unspeakable things to the criminals' leader. The jawdroppingly insane plan they enact, followed by their triumphant victory march, has led more than one reviewer to compare the film to Hitler Youth propaganda." It will be preceded by a short called The Owl. Doc Films is located at Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St. in Chicago. Tickets are $5.
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