
By the Law
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Release Date
12/3/1926Runtime
80 minsOverview
After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several months until they can turn him over to the law.
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RussianBudget
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A claustrophobic psychological thriller where three men trapped in the frozen Yukon must guard a murderer in their midst for months, with suspicion and brutality slowly eroding their humanity. The vastness of the landscape becomes inescapable as relationships fray and the line between captor and captive blurs.
Mood
Dread-soakedTenseBleakParanoid
Themes
CrimeSurvivalIsolationJusticeComing apart
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
Black and whiteNaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Single location
Heads up
Graphic violence
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