Get your hankies ready to be soaked. Oh, and postpone that manicure because you’ll nibble off those nails anyway. Whether you’ve never seen it, or it’s one you’ve screened countless times, William Beaudine’s SPARROWS (1926) is a both a tear-jerker and nail-biting thriller to be savored. [Warning: SPOILERS will pop up ahead upon reading.] Deeply hidden in the muddy, quick-sand and alligator-infested swamps of the … Continue reading The Original Sweet Badass Momma of the Silents, Mary Pickford in SPARROWS (1926)