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Foolish Wives (Alpha) (1921)
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Starring: Mae Busch, Rudolph Christians, Miss Dupont, Dale Fuller, Maude George, Cesare Gravina, Malvina Polo, Erich Von Stroheim
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
Category: Drama
Studio: Alpha Video
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Length:
108 mins

 
 

 

Erich Von Stroheim's Silent Classic

Notorious womanizer Count Wladyslaw Sergius Karamzin (Erich Von Stroheim) rents a magnificent villa in Monte Carlo with his two female "cousins". The decadent trio share the lavish lifestyle available only to fabulously wealthy aristocrats. Beneath the veneer of respectability lurks and ugly secret-the trio are flat broke and finance their sumptuous existence through counterfeiting and the funds the Count is able to glean from the upper-class wives he coldly and very successfully seduces. Learning that the American ambassador is arriving for a visit, Karamzin schemes to make the politician's beautiful wife his next victim. Bored and gullible, Mrs. Hughes is the perfect "subject" for the Count's attentions, but winds up with much more than the adventure she seeks-unleashing disastrous consequences.

Exuding immorality, the monocled Erich Von Stroheim gives a stellar performance in Foolish Wives, which he also directed and wrote. Von Stroheim's pointed critique skewers both American dull-wittedness and European Old World decadence. Billed as the "First Million Dollar Movie," this powerful silent classic still shocks today.

 
 
   
   

 
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