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Director:
Jacques Feyder
Writers:
Arthur Schnitzler (book)
Ruth Cummings (adaptation)
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Release Date:
2 May 1931 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
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 synopsis
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Novarro charming in morality tale of seduction and redemption more

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Runtime:
85 min | 76 min (TCM print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)

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Soundtrack:
Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), Op.388 more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Novarro charming in morality tale of seduction and redemption, 24 November 2004

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.

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