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The Cheaters

An embezzler, Bill Marsh, swears vengeance on a businessman, John Travers, who has turned him in to the police. Twenty years pass, and Marsh emerges from jail and establishes himself as the head of a powerful crime empire, with his daughter, Paula, serving as bait to attract wealthy victims. Paula falls in love with Lee Travers, the adopted son of Marsh's old enemy, and begins to have doubts about her life of crime. Only after a series of tragic incidents is she set free to marry Lee and start life anew. This silent feature was highly regarded for its set design and 'unusual sensitivity to the expressive range of the camera and their awareness of careful scenario construction as a key to emotionally powerful cinema'. Cast includes Marie Lorraine, Arthur Greenaway, John Faulkner. A sound version was attempted soon after but was not successful and was never released.

The Cheaters

5.6 1930
The Frame

In a sunburnt outback town, charismatic petty thief Steven convinces his well-meaning but accident-prone friend Terry to gamble everything on a daytime job meant to set them up for life: steal an expensive painting from a supposedly low-security storage branch and sell it. The heist quickly unravels when Terry trips an alarm and a desperate chase erupts, motorcycles, sirens and a fatal confrontation in which Terry is forced to kill a guard. They make it back to their shed hideout expecting relief, but the relief never comes. A friend they thought had stayed out of the job returns, now aligned with the security forces, and the backyard sanctuary turns into a killing ground: Terry is shot dead and Steven runs for his life with nothing left but a pistol and a burning need for answers. Framed is a tense, character-driven thriller about loyalty, betrayal and how one misstep can flip a small plan into a ruinous vendetta."

The Frame

NR N/A
Wild Butterfly

Wild Butterfly is true crime documentary that follows the tragic story of 24 year-old Claire Murray and her desperate search for a life- saving liver transplant that became a trial by national media. Depicted as an ungrateful junkie who recklessly destroyed her first transplant, Wild Butterfly investigates the true story behind the events that lead to Claire's death in 2010 including new criminal evidence. Catholic institutional cover-up, medical negligence, missing police records, and trial by mainstream and social media, are all at play in this heartbreaking and gripping documentary. This is not just the tragic story of one young woman and her family - this story opens our eyes to the impacts of universal social injustices and prejudices, that could befall any family and anybody's daughter.

Wild Butterfly

NR 2020