In 1928, after years of struggles within the studio system, Erich von Stroheim found the opportunity to create his crowning achievement: a storybook romance of intoxicating beauty, counterbalanced with a typical (for von Stroheim) frightfully grim tale of moral corruption.
Gloria Swanson stars as an innocent convent girl who falls under the spell of a handsome prince (Walter Byron) on the eve of his marriage to a diabolical queen (Seena Owen).
Star-producer Swanson shut down production before it ended, in part because of scenes set in an African brothel... many included in this acclaimed restoration print.
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Erich von Stroheim, U.S.A., B&W, silent with music, 1928, 97 min..
