| Director: | Eric von Stroheim |
|---|---|
| Production: | Gloria Productions for United Artists |
| Running Time: | 101’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Year: | 1929 |
| Main Cast: | Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Walter Byron, Wilhelm von Brincken, Tully Marshall, Florence Gibson, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Rae Daggett |
| Screenplay: | Erich von Stroheim |
| Cinematographer: | Gordon Pollock, Paul Ivano |
| Editor: | Viola Lawrence |
| Production Designer: | Harold Miles |
| Costume Designer: | Max Ree |
| Laboratory: | Metropolis Post |
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The cruel Queen Regina V obsesses over her feckless fiancé, Prince Wolfram. When he encounters an innocent but flirtatious convent girl, Patricia Kelly, he falls in love. Desperate to see her before his wedding, he brings Kelly in the palace. When the queen discovers them, she whips the girl and throws her out. Summoned to the bedside of her aunt, Kelly is shocked to find herself in a brothel. On her death bed, her aunt begs the girl to wed the syphilitic rich Jan.
PRODUCTION:
Milestone Film Video - Dennis Doros, Amy Heller
38 George Street
07640-1414 Harrington Park, NJ, United States of America
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PRODUCTION AT THE TIME OF FILMING:
Gloria Productions
CO-PRODUCTION AT THE TIME OF FILMING:
United Artists
LAB:
Metropolis Post
WORLD SALES:
Kino Lorber - George Schmalz
333 West 39th Street
10018 New York, NY, United States of America
Tel: +1 212-629-6880
E-mail: gschmalz@kinolorber.com
Web: http://www.kinolorber.com
PRESS OFFICE:
Dennis Doros - Milestone Film Video
38 George Street
07640-1414 Harrington Park, United States of America
Tel: +1 2017673117 / +1 9176706239
E-mail: milefilms@gmail.com
Ulteriori addetti/additional press officers: Amy Heller - aahellerdoros@gmail.com
And when the last scene will have been written and filmed, and the ink will have crusted on the pen-point, and the film will have turned brittle and the emulsion dried to cracking... and the money-changers will continue to run clashing after “new men”... I will be thinking of the grim long grind of the years of my life that I have put behind me, and of my work... that I have built up, reel by reel... sincere work... holding to it with clutched hands and clenched teeth. I shall be able to say: “I never bargained... and I never took off my hat to convention nor fashion... and held it out for pennies... I have always told them the truth as I saw it... They liked it or they did not like it... But it was the truth anyway... as I saw it... And that clear conscience is my reward...”
