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THE GOOSE WOMAN
♪ Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner ♪
U.S., 1925
Directed by Clarence Brown
Starring Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, Constance Bennett
Approx. 80 min. DCP.
Ex-opera star turned boozing, disheveled goose herder Louise Dresser figures her “eyewitness” testimony about the sensational murder committed practically next door could be her ticket back—but what if her lies implicate the wrong person? Based on an actual eccentric tangent to the Hall-Mills murders.
Restored by The Packard Humanities Institute.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Louise Dresser was one of the best actresses in the history of cinema…No one who saw her in THE GOOSE WOMAN could forget her.”
– DeWitt Bodeen
“When I opened that parcel and projected [THE GOOSE WOMAN], I suddenly realized the incredible range of American silent films, and I felt, ‘My God, I wouldn’t mind spending the rest of my life discovering them,’ which is really what happened.”
– Kevin Brownlow