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BLIND HUSBANDS / GREAT GABBO
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A double feature highlighting the work of actor-director Erich von Stroheim. Blind Husbands (1919, 98 mins.) was von Stroheim's first film as a director. Set in the Alps, von Stroheim plays a handsome officer having an affair with the wife of a boring doctor. In the backstage musical drama, The Great Gabbo (James Cruze, 1929, 89 mins.), von Stroheim, complete with monocle, plays an egocentric ventriloquist whose dummy Otto sings on stage and in restaurants. Based on a Ben Hecht story. Musical numbers include "Caught in the Web of Love," where chorus girls perform in a giant spider web. Erich von Stroheim/James Cruze---USA---1919/1929
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FOOLISH WIVES
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Publicized as the first film to cost a million dollars, praised for its extravagant visual design and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue count's unbridled and often peculiar sexual obsessions, this sophisticated movie features a great performance from its director. Characteristic of von Stroheim's greatest work, this newly mastered (from a 35mm print) version has been restored to its full 107 minutes by the American Film Institute. Erich von Stroheim---USA---1922---107 mins.
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FOOLISH WIVES/ MAN YOU LOVED
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This double feature highlights the life and art of Erich von Stroheim by presenting one of his best-loved films and a documentary about the famed director. Publicized as the first film to cost a million dollars, Foolish Wives (1922, 107 mins.) was praised for its extravagant visual design and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue count's sexual obsessions. A sophisticated movie with a great performance from its director, this newly mastered version has been restored by the American Film Institute. The documentary The Man You Loved to Hate (Patrick Montgomery, 1979, 70 mins.) is an important look at von Stroheim's bizarre career. Featuring interviews and excerpts from his films, this exhaustive film provides a Erich von Stroheim/Patrick Montgomery---USA---1922/1979---177 mins.
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MERRY WIDOW (VON STROHEIM)
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Von Stroheim's stylish, witty and grotesque adaptation of Franz Lehar's operetta of sadism and fetishism, in which a prince (John Gilbert) is ordered to woo a wealthy American widow (Mae Murray). One of several films over which producer Irving Thalberg went to battle with the extravagant von Stroheim: his long scenes with shots of the contents of the Baron's wardrobe--boots, shoes, slippers, shoe trees--made Thalberg wonder who was the true foot fetishist. Look for a young Clark Gable as an extra. Erich von Stroheim---USA---1925---113 mins.
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QUEEN KELLY
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With its restoration in 1985, Erich von Stroheim's eighth and final silent film emerged from over 50 years of obscurity to its first official release and worldwide acclaim. As such, it now ranks as one of the great treasures of film history. The collaboration of Gloria Swanson, then Hollywood's greatest star, and financier Joseph Kennedy, the film was near completion when, after three months of production, Swanson closed it down enraged by von Stroheim's excesses. The story, a gothic romance in which a convent girl is seduced by a Prince and inherits a brothel in Africa, is told with stunning visual effect. Erich von Stroheim---USA---1929---97 mins.
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