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.
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Another amazing find from our friends at Cine-Clasico, "Vier um die Frau" is a 1921 Fritz Lang film found in the Brazilian film archives. The period intertitles are in Portuguese but the plot is not difficult to follow, particularly with the assistance of the invaluable Herr Graf Ferdinand Von Galitzien, whose blog entry on the film (link) follows :
The film depicts, in three acts and an epilogue, the story of a clumsy clerk, Siegmund Lachmann (Ernst Lubitsch , who, after been fired for having broken accidentally the shop window where he works, goes to Berlin in order to get a new job in a prestigious fashion salon. Our hero finds himself surrounded by Teutonic beauties, that is to say, fat fräulein models that wear the latest fashions of the 1910's. Pretty soon he will be attracted to a young rich girl but with the opposition of her father.
A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.
Chief Ahmad (fiesty Valentino) urgent desire of British socialite Diana (Ayers), so he kidnapped her, put her to his luxury desert tent palace. Free Diana from his www. 5233tv.com warm hug and the desire to be released. Only in the desert bandits kidnapped Diana realized that she had fallen in love with Ahmad, who came to save her, at the crucial moment.
美国南北战(zhàn )争时期(qī )，南方庄园主(zhǔ )卡梅伦(💿)(lú(🧐)n )一(🈺)家(🚛)原(🚥)本过着(zhe )安逸的(de )生活(huó )。卡梅隆(lóng )和斯通(tōng )曼家(jiā )的孩子同(tóng )在一(🌔)所(🧘)(suǒ(🍭) )寄(🛐)宿(📿)(xiǔ )学校念书(shū )，接触中，年轻的本(běn )杰明·卡梅隆（亨利(lì )·B·沃(🚨)斯(💢)奥(🎹) Henry B. Walthall饰(🏏)）和埃(āi )尔西·斯通曼（丽莲(lián )·吉许 Lillian Gish饰）互生情愫(sù )。然而不(🍖)久(⏹)南(🤽)北(🐖)战(🏤)争(zhēng )爆发。本杰明参加了(le )南方军队，奔(bēn )赴前线(xiàn )，与北方的昔(xī )日(🤶)好(📙)友(🐁)(yǒ(🗄)u )斯(🔙)通曼（拉尔(ěr )夫·李(lǐ )维斯 Ralph Lewis饰）成了(le )敌手。战后(hòu )，黑人烧(shāo )杀抢(🍇)掠(🥏)(luě(❣) )。本(🌼)(bě(㊙)n )杰明组织(zhī )三K党，对黑(hēi )人进行报(bào )复，粉(fěn )碎了(le )建立所谓(wèi )的“黑(💙)人(👒)王(📹)国(🛶)”的阴(yīn )谋。本杰明与埃尔西(xī )这对患难情侣也终于(yú )走到了一起(👁)。他(🎑)们(🎳)的(🌧)(de )结(😓)合，预示着一个新(xīn )的国家的诞生和统一(yī )。