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A Reconstruction of the Original Film by and with Erich von Stroheim
After a few years of being an assistant to D.W. Griffith and a portrayer of cruel Huns during the First World War, Erich von Stroheim talked Universal's Carl Laemmle into letting him direct and act in his own film, Blind Husbands (1919).His second film, The Devil's Passkey, was also successful, and von Stroheim was given a blank check for his first really big effort, Foolish Wives.
Von Stroheim wanted to depict the confused milieu of post-war Europe in a realistic fashion, tracing all through the actions of a bogus count and his seductive, corrupt ways.The plot concerns a Russian
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