Foolish Wives (Alpha)  /  DVD-Video
Standard 1.33:1 B&W  /  Production Year: 1921  /  Region All

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Select Product View: General Info Empire Reviews Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend All-Time Sales Rank: 28593 Be the first customer to comment on this Title. Synopsis Erich Von Stroheim's Silent Classic Notorious womanizer Count Wladyslaw Sergius Karamzin (Erich Von Stroheim) rents a magnificent villa in Monte Carlo with his two female "cousins". The decadent trio share the lavish lifestyle available only to fabulously wealthy aristocrats. Beneath the veneer of respectability lurks and ugly secret-the trio are flat broke and finance their sumptuous existence through counterfeiting and the funds the Count is able to glean from the upper-class wives he coldly and very successfully seduces. Learning that the American ambassador is arriving for a visit, Karamzin schemes to make the politician's beautiful wife his next victim. Bored and gullible, Mrs. Hughes is the perfect "subject" for the Count's attentions, but winds up with much more than the adventure she seeks-unleashing disastrous consequences. Exuding immorality, the monocled Erich Von Stroheim gives a stellar performance in Foolish Wives, which he also directed and wrote. Von Stroheim's pointed critique skewers both American dull-wittedness and European Old World decadence. Billed as the "First Million Dollar Movie," this powerful silent classic still shocks today. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Malvina Polo  • Mae Busch  • Miss Dupont  • Maude George  • Erich Von Stroheim  • Cesare Gravina  • Rudolph Christians  • Dale Fuller Writers:  • Erich Von Stroheim Directors:  • Erich Von Stroheim Product Information Features: Features Not Specified Video: Standard 1.33:1 B&W Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo Studio: Alpha Video Production Year: 1921 Release Date: 1/27/2004 Length: 108 mins Rating: NR Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-SL Item Code: ALP4316D UPC Code: 089218431691 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: National Film Registry, Silent Film, Drama Bargains: Under $7 Studios: Alpha Video Reviews Be the first customer to comment on this Title.