KHP’s Jack Neely will be joining independent archivist Bradley Reeves, co-founder of TAMIS, to introduce a rare color tint print of The Goose Woman (1925), directed by Knoxville’s own Clarence Brown, at Central Cinema as a programmatic tie-in ahead of Knox County Public Library’s Clarence Brown Film Festival, which runs August 16-20 (see below).
The Goose Woman, a bizarre murder melodrama, starring Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford (the short-lived brother of Mary Pickford), and Constance Bennett (very early in her career), was a minor sensation when released in 1925. When it showed at the old Queen on Gay Street, the Knoxville Journal called it “daring … one of the most unusual and heart-gripping dramas ever shown in a motion-picture theater.”
