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The print I saw was of very poor quality, but that doesn't appear to matter. This is a filmed play, with totally uninteresting cinematography. The idea of actors acting, with all the pranks and scheming is promising, but not here. This isn't funny. If there was supposed to be some satire, it is lost.I suppose it is not uncommon, but this film directed by Maurice Tourneur bares no resemblance to the films of his made three or so decades ago. In the 1910s into the 1920s, Tourneur was pioneering the new medium in the states. His films were interestingly photographed for the times. 'The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England' (1914) referenced theatre, but in a rather cinematic way. 'Volpone' is just one of the films he made in France, but it seems antagonistic to a filmmaker who was forging an identity for cinéma more independent of theatre.
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