Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAfter losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.After losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.After losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.
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- 1 vittoria
- Mere Grandet
- (as Edna Demaurey)
- Ghost of Gold
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- Washerwoman
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- Villager
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- Man cutting toenails
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- QuizBoth this film and the earlier hit I quattro cavalieri dell'Apocalisse (1921) had screenplays by June Mathis, who is credited with "discovering" Rudolph Valentino. When The Great Lover died unexpectedly in 1926 and was too poor to pay for a burial plot, Mathis agreed to "lend" him the crypt intended for her husband. Nearly 100 years later, Mathis and Valentino remain interred side-by-side with her husband buried in a crypt below the two of them.
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Victor Grandet: [in a letter read by his brother Pere Grandet] My dear brother, After twenty years, I am sending my son to you for by the time this letter reached you, I shall be no more. My entire fortune has been swept away by speculation on the stock market. I owe millions. In three days all Paris will say I was a rogue and I shall be wrapped in a winding sheet of infamy. My dying prayer is that you will be a father to my boy and may God bless you as you fulfill this trust. Your despairing brother, Victor Grandet.
- Versioni alternativeA silent version with an uncredited piano accompaniment has been shown on the Turner Classic Movies channel. It has Turner and MGM front ends and runs 90 minutes. The only crew credits are for the director and writer Balzac, and the only cast credits are for Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry, in that order.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Lorg na gCos: Súil Siar ar Mise Éire (2012)
Well, the "Sunset Boulevard" phrase "We had faces then" certainly applies to this film. There were so many odd-looking, wizened up, elderly people in this film, it was astounding. They were all fascinating to look at and seemed to showcase the beauty of Terry and Valentino all the more. Valentino is excellent, ever elegant, and is particularly handsome in the beginning and toward the end of the film, when he sports casual clothes, a mustache, and 5 o'clock shadow. For the scenes at his uncle's, his makeup is somewhat exaggerated in the style often used in the '20s - and this is one actor who needed no accentuation. Terry is lovely and gives a wonderful performance.
The star of this film, however, is Ingram's direction, particularly at the end, where mysterious hands come out of a cradle filled with gold and from everywhere else, Gold itself makes a human-like appearance, spitting out coins, and walls literally close in. Fantastic effects done many, many years before the computer and requiring a lot of imagination.
Highly recommended - we are so fortunate to be able to see some of these films, even if they are not in pristine condition.
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 29 minuti
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