Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Half Way Girl. Explosion inspectors found the demise of the Mandalay one of the most shattering in screen annals. The producers bought an old packet, buried dynamite fore and aft and set her on fire. Just before the blowup, they contrived to have Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes evade the leopard that had escaped in the riot, and catch the last life boat. She had been an underworld wench; he was falsely accused of murder. Mostly as usual, except for the disruption of the Mandalay...