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2 May 1931 (USA) morePlot:
Willi, a brash young lieutenant in the Austrian Imperial Guard, bent on an evening of pleasure, visits a house of ill repute and gambling parlor... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Novarro charming in morality tale of seduction and redemption moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Ramon Novarro | ... | Willi Kasder |
| Helen Chandler | ... | Laura Taub |
| Jean Hersholt | ... | Herr Schnabel |
| C. Aubrey Smith | ... | General von Hertz |
| William Bakewell | ... | Otto |
| Karen Morley | ... | Emily Kessner |
| Douglass Montgomery | ... | Lieutenant Erich von Lear (as Kent Douglass) |
| Glenn Tryon | ... | Franz |
| Clyde Cook | ... | Josef |
| Sumner Getchell | ... | Emil |
| Clara Blandick | ... | Frau Hoffman |
 | Edwin Maxwell | ... | Herr Hoffman |
| Jackie Searl | ... | August Hoffman (as Jackie Searle) |
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85 min | 76 min (TCM print)Country:
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Fun Stuff
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Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), Op.388 moreFAQ
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This plot seems to owe a bit to Tolstoy's REDEMPTION, filmed by Mamoulian in 1934 as WE LIVE AGAIN. Here an Austrian officer and roue seduces an innocent young girl and while it is just another feather in his cap, her life is destroyed. In trying to make amends, he finds he is truly in love with her, but now she has a protector, a powerful older man that the officer despises.
How to win her back?
Novarro is completely at ease with his material and proves once again that he is the most charming of seducers. Helen Chandler is perfect as the shy gamin and Jean Hersholt is wasted with only a few scenes as the heavy. Douglass Montgomery here in his first role and billed as Kent Douglass has only three scenes in the first five minutes, all without dialogue.
It's a nice little film with a moral lesson and a finger wag at the idle young rich and privileged. Mainly of interested for Novarro fans. Note the risqué Novarro bathing scene and the prissy orderly with a lust for Novarro's undergarments - definitely pre-Code and a bit Von Stroheim-ish.