Report from Cinevent 2007: YOU ARE GUILTY! (**) James Kirkwood as one of two half-brothers, the other of whom has a mustache and, by the law of silent movie brothers, is therefore no good. Mustache brother embezzles, good brother takes the fall to spare (step-)Mother and hits the hobo trail, and soon he's haunted by The Whispering Chorus-- wait, that was another, not dissimilar movie. Not-bad 1923 silent in the kind of somber, philosophical-slash-depressed vein that pretty much vanished from Hollywood for good later in the decade; even when films like this aren't that great, they offer a fascinating window into the last moment when popular culture still reflected a general view that life was hard, sad and unlikely to end well.
Review of You Are Guilty
