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亨(🐩)利八(bā(🚖) )世与安(ān )娜.博林(lín )的爱恨(hèn )情仇... I saw this at the London Film Festival in 1995 or 1996. The print had been lovingly restored from sections scattered around the world, including some from archives in Moscow. Somebody near me said "I'm really looking forward to this", which was understandable, since the director, as Michael Curtiz, later made some jolly swashbucklers and Casablanca, and the LFF had previously come up with several almost unknown silent masterpieces, including Jacques Feyder's Visage d'enfants. The story is about two couples, one whose the marriage - and the baby - are hidden to the husband's father. The father is angry that his son is still "a bachelor" and decides to organizes his marriage. The other couple, still unmarried, is reluctant to marry, being afraid of an old legend that circulates in the city, of a ghost who appears periodically at some marriages, kisses the bride and she dies the following days. 街(jiē )のはず(🍄)れにあ(👰)る小さ(🖨)な居酒(🚗)屋を舞(🅾)台に、(⛔)主人と(🚸)新妻、(🐨)ユーレ(⚓)イとなった前(qián )の妻が繰り広(guǎng )げる恋(liàn )を(⛽)描くコ(⏲)メディ(❕)。山(shān )本(📀)昌代(dà(🦋)i )の同名(📌)(míng )小説(🧟)（河出(👂)書(shū )房新社(shè )・刊）をもとに、「エンジェ(🚵)ル　僕(🚣)の歌は(🍁)君の歌(🤬)」の渡(⛅)邊孝(xià(🌚)o )好が監(🔻)(jiān )督。脚(🐐)(jiǎo )本は「夏の庭(tíng )　Ｔｈｅ　Ｆｒｉｅｎｄ(🔃)ｓ」の(🧦)田(tián )中(🖲)陽三(sā(👑)n )、撮影(♟)(yǐng )は藤(😈)沢順一(🚜)が担当(🌕)。94年度キ(📴)ネマ旬報日本映画ベストテン第3位(wèi )、同読(🏬)(dú )者選(🕶)出(chū )日(🛷)本映(yì(💘)ng )画ベス(🛐)トテン(👍)第3位。 Graustark needs thirty million dollars to satisfy a Russian loan. The Prince of Dawsbergen, ruler of the adjoining principality, will advance the money if the young Prince of Graustark marries his daughter. Prince Robin, however, inherits an independent spirit, his father having been an American. He refuses absolutely to marry a Princess whom he has never seen. His councilors plead in vain. With the ruin of his country imminent, the boy ruler hastily sails for America to negotiate the loan, hoping at the same time to meet the girl of his dreams. The money is readily advanced by William W. Blithers, a self-made millionaire anxious to have his daughter marry into royalty. The daughter, however, avoids the Prince and he does not see her. He rescues a girl from drowning and falls in love with her. He believes her to be Blithers' daughter, but she does not reveal her identity. Simultaneous with the Prince's departure for home comes a note to Blithers from his daughter that she has sailed for Europe to escape the Prince. Blithers is elated. He is certain they will meet on shipboard. The Prince does meet the girl he loves. In Paris he makes a tryst with her and they are arrested for speeding. Before any sentence can be passed upon her, however, a diplomatic document reaches the court and they are freed. The Prince believes the power of Blithers to be world-wide. The night of his return to Graustark with the welcome news of the loan, the Prince of Dawsbergen is a guest at the palace. A mysterious note calls the younger man to the terrace. There he meets the girl. He tells her that even though she is Blithers' daughter, he wants to marry her. Taking her into the palace he announces her to the councilors as his future bride. He cannot account for their approving smile. "There is your father," he tells the girl as Blithers, who followed them across the ocean, enters the room. She laughs. "No, my father is over there," she exclaims, pointing to the Prince of Dawsbergen. The energetic Blithers explodes when he learns the news. He recovers himself, however, and says: "Congratulations. Prince. I can be a good loser." A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.