Word: lantern-lit
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...John B. Hymes and LeRoy Clemens, called it a comedy drama for lack of a better name, for it fits no dramatic pigeonhole. The prologue, which is weird melodrama, takes the kinks out of the audience's spines and leaves everyone grasping the plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town...
...Neath the boughs of the lantern-lit trees...