The Seashell and the Clergyman(1928)
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
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Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
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1928-10-01
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