pixrox1 Review of Little Old New York

Little Old New York (1923)

This film documents fairly recent Manhattan traditions . . .

[8/10 · 27 December 2021]

. . . regarding the punishment of cross-dressers, which involved them being bound to whipping posts and publicly flogged until their controversial garments were shredded off their bodies, leaving them in red-grooved birthday suits. Seeing America's sweetheart subjected to such treatment made LITTLE OLD NEW YORK the most popular and highest grossing film of All Time, when it was released. Until granddaughter Patty shot up that bank for her liberation army, this film was considered W. R. Hearst's most lurid legacy. Ironically, YORK's original ending included on the director's cut documents that Patty's last syllables as the L. A. cops burned down her hideout were: "Rosebud."