What if your lucky rabbit's foot was actually cursed? This 1917 gem asks: can you superstition your way out of your own life?
Philander has embraced every superstition imaginable, from hoarding rabbit's foots and horseshoes to avoiding the third light on a match. But his luck manages to run out anyway -- he loses his girl, Brunhilda and his job.
Acting
Taylor Holmes' elastic face sells every superstitious panic.
Direction
Windom packs three acts of disaster into 50 tight minutes.
Director
Lawrence C. Windom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Third-on-a-match superstition peaked during WWI—soldiers believed snipers needed that long to aim. Philander's fear was genuinely contemporary anxiety.
Taylor Holmes would work for another 50 years, becoming the oldest active SAG member at 81. This was basically his internship in suffering.
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