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The Strangler (S)

1930

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Documentary Smith's patient skills are brilliantly in evidence in The Strangler (1930), a study of the dodder – a tiny parasitic vine that wraps itself around the stem of its host plant and then inserts tubes into the host's vascular system, off which it then feeds. The film is styled as botanical horror movie or garden-gothic extravaganza (one gets the sense that Smith liked quite a high level of ham in his films). "Some plants are born ... [+]

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