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There’s nothing like a little alone time to give you some perspective on your situation in life — especially when you’re lonely. During his extremely brief career in Hollywood, Hungarian-born filmmaker Paul Fejos directed this early artistic curio contribution to the world of celluloid about a lonely factory worker in New York named Jim (Glenn Tyron), who — bored with the day-to-day drill of his professional life — goes to the mystical Isle of Coney, wherein he meets an equally forlorn female by the handle o’ Mary (Barbara Kent), who works as a telephone operator (because there were few other jobs for women in 1928, you know).
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