When a newspaper, The Megaphone, publicises an offer of a big reward if one of the four will turn the others in, Thery is tempted and goes to surrender himself to the newspaper’s editor. But as a result, the police in the form of Inspector Falmouth (Charles Tilson-Chowne) are soon on the trail of the four just men. When a bomb (albeit without a detonator) is placed in one of Ramon’s factories as a warning he remains undeterred. The film kicks off with the secretive four just men themselves, Manfred (Cecil Humphreys), Poiccart (Owen Roughwood), Gonzalez (George Bellamy and Thery (Charles Crocker-King), planning what steps they would next take against industrialist Sir Phillip Ramon (Teddy Arundell) in order to halt his exploitation of his workforce. In the event, this was probably a mistake but more of that later. (What we really need is for some sad, nerdy character to draw up a sort of calendar setting out what silent films are playing when in order to prevent just this sort of situation!) Anyway, much though I love Pandora’s Box, its a film I’ve seen many times before so today’s choice had to be the rarely screened, and new to me, The Four Just Men. Was it to be Pandora’s Box at the Phoenix with Stephen Horne or The Four Just Men at the BFI with Neil Brand. Today saw yet another of those annoying silent film fixture clashes.
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