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Film · Universal · 1922

Foolish Wives

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Item: Foolish Wives
Rating: 19
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19Leave it.

Adults only: a false count preys on wives, and the manners are the fraud.

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The review

Monte Carlo, a false count, and other men's wives. Stroheim plays him, and one of those wives belongs to a diplomat. Universal spent heavily. The splash was a scandal more than a giant gross. I won't walk through the seductions. Adults who want the method are asking for the wrong night.

Not a family film. The fraud is the manners, which is how a predator can pass as polished company. The studio cut the picture, and what remains is still the predator. I don't take the cut as a cleanup. A diplomat's marriage is simply another door he means to use. If it plays at all, play it with another adult who will say so.

Journal

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Live Historic number 19. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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Gone with the Wind

31 instead of 19

Gone with the Wind is still a drama film, and it scores 31 instead of 19. What you gain is courage: She loses the war, the house, and the marriages, and stays by nerve.

The eight

2
Industry
The false count's living is preying on wives, not a trade anyone should keep.
2
Household
Bored wives are the prey, and one of them is married to a diplomat.
1
Piety
The false count goes on preying on bored wives and does not stop himself.
2
Courage
A false count in Monte Carlo preys on bored wives and trusts his manners.
3
Republic
A diplomat's wife is one of the marks, so a public marriage is in the con.
1
Temperance
He moves from bored wife to bored wife, and the want is the whole plot.
2
Truth
The count is false, the manners are the fraud, and the cut print still shows him.
2
Stewardship
Universal cut an expensive scandal, and the predator is what remains.

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Film · Paramount · 1926

Aloma of the South Seas

19Leave it.

The print is gone, and I won't borrow 1941 to pretend I saw the islands.

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The review

Leave Aloma of the South Seas where it is, which is nowhere. The print is gone. Many lists still call it the year's largest, near 3 million, and a figure is not a film I can check. Gilda Gray as a dancer in the islands. A white veteran and a tangle of old lovers. Maurice Tourneur shot it in Puerto Rico and Bermuda. A trailer survives. The 1941 remake is a different story, and I won't tell that plot.

The islands are a costume for a white romance. Say that and stop. I haven't seen the picture because nobody can. A trailer is not a night with tired kids, and a lost hit is no reason to borrow a later film so the plot has an ending. The country paid for a romance it can no longer see.

Journal

Keep Aloma of the South Seas in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 19. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Gone with the Wind

31 instead of 19

Gone with the Wind is still a romance film, and it scores 31 instead of 19. What you gain is courage: She loses the war, the house, and the marriages, and stays by nerve.

The eight

3
Industry
Gilda Gray is billed as a dancer the lost print can't show.
2
Household
A white veteran and a tangle of old lovers, not a home.
1
Piety
The print is gone, so no conscience you can check remains.
2
Courage
A veteran is in the billing, and any picture of the risk is gone.
2
Republic
The islands are a costume for a white romance, not a people.
2
Temperance
Old lovers are the tangle they sold, and the print is gone.
2
Truth
Lists still print a fortune for a picture nobody can watch.
1
Stewardship
A trailer survives, the film does not, and 1941 is another story.

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