UNDERTOW
LAWRENCE JORDAN • 9m 38s
Fantasy / psychodrama of the cat, the candle and the Christmas tree.
[Filmed in San Francisco at an apartment a street or so below McAllister off Franklin. The cat was named Tin Sing.]
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