Queen Kelly (1929)
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m silent
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron
Synopsis:
The crown prince of a Ruritanian kingdom puts off his marriage to the mad Queen Regina but is punished for philandering. He spots Kelly as a sister novitiate and abducts her, but they are discovered and she is banished to German East Africa, where she runs a brothel.
Review:
An unfinished work but still an engaging series of racy vignettes, with a satisfying central performance and the usual air of decadence surrounding a Von Stroheim film. The film was reissued with sound in 1932 (at 75 mins), and restored in 1985 to its present state, with intertitles and stills to paper over the cracks.
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m silent
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron
Synopsis:
The crown prince of a Ruritanian kingdom puts off his marriage to the mad Queen Regina but is punished for philandering. He spots Kelly as a sister novitiate and abducts her, but they are discovered and she is banished to German East Africa, where she runs a brothel.
Review:
An unfinished work but still an engaging series of racy vignettes, with a satisfying central performance and the usual air of decadence surrounding a Von Stroheim film. The film was reissued with sound in 1932 (at 75 mins), and restored in 1985 to its present state, with intertitles and stills to paper over the cracks.
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m silent
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron
Synopsis:
The crown prince of a Ruritanian kingdom puts off his marriage to the mad Queen Regina but is punished for philandering. He spots Kelly as a sister novitiate and abducts her, but they are discovered and she is banished to German East Africa, where she runs a brothel.
Review:
An unfinished work but still an engaging series of racy vignettes, with a satisfying central performance and the usual air of decadence surrounding a Von Stroheim film. The film was reissued with sound in 1932 (at 75 mins), and restored in 1985 to its present state, with intertitles and stills to paper over the cracks.