Movie: By Night with Torch and Spear

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    Smoke, sparks and steam dance together in Cornell's found-footage collage. Backwards title cards (or an alien language, if you like) punctuate this mishmash of the industrial and the ancient.

  • Release Date

    1942-12-31

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    5.6

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    2.8 starts
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