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The Atom

1918 · 0h 50m · Drama

Skip it. This silent-era melodrama about a disfigured actor and his devoted admirer sounds like well-trodden theatrical territory—earnest but likely overwrought by modern standards, and without critical consensus to justify seeking it out on a crowded streaming night.

Plot

Jennie is a slavey in a theatrical boarding house. To her the actors are all wonderful, but Montague Booth is the chief. In an accident Booth is disfigured for life and is saved from suicide by Jennie. They join a medicine show in which Booth is lecturer, but Jennie cannot stand the road. Booth leaves the show and takes up a homestead claim. The manager of the show sends one of Booth's old loves to get him back, for his services are valuable, but Belle fails after very nearly wrecking everyone's happiness.

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