Film · Sweden · 1921
Pass it on
The Phantom Carriage
54Watch it awake.
A drunkard is shown the house he wrecked, and the cart is the sentence.
The review
New Year's is the frame, and it isn't a party. The last man to die has to drive death's cart for a year. A drunkard is shown his life. Victor Sjöström, from Lagerlöf, Sweden, 1921. A teen can watch it. It wasn't a crowd in American houses. The household he wrecked is the bill. The cart is the duty. The house is what he already spent.
Don't file the drinking under mood. The picture puts the wreck in front of him, which is more honesty than a lot of famous silents manage. I still won't tell a kid the showing repairs a man. We're shown the bill, not handed a cure. If it goes on, say the household is the cost. The date doesn't make it cozy.
Journal
Keep The Phantom Carriage in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Secret Garden
66 instead of 54
The Secret Garden is still a drama film, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is industry: Weeding as a cure.
The eight
- 2Industry
No honest job is the story; a drunkard's life is the subject.
- 8Household
The household he wrecked is the bill the cart makes him face.
- 7Piety
He is shown his life, conscience arriving without his asking.
- 3Courage
Driving the cart is a sentence on the last to die, not his choice.
- 5Republic
The year's last death owes the living a driver for a year.
- 6Temperance
The film shows the wreck of drink instead of pouring another.
- 8Truth
His life is shown, and the wrecked house is not a rumor.
- 4Stewardship
He leaves a wrecked house, and the cart still has its year.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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