Film · Universal · 1922
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Foolish Wives
19Leave it.
Adults only: a false count preys on wives, and the manners are the fraud.
Take controlThis scores 19. Foolish Wives cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Monte Carlo, a false count, and other men's wives. Stroheim plays him, and one of those wives belongs to a diplomat. Universal spent heavily. The splash was a scandal more than a giant gross. I won't walk through the seductions. Adults who want the method are asking for the wrong night.
Not a family film. The fraud is the manners, which is how a predator can pass as polished company. The studio cut the picture, and what remains is still the predator. I don't take the cut as a cleanup. A diplomat's marriage is simply another door he means to use. If it plays at all, play it with another adult who will say so.
Journal
Keep Foolish Wives in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 19. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Sun Never Sets
31 instead of 19
The Sun Never Sets is still a drama film, and it scores 31 instead of 19. What you gain is household: A pair, which is a start and not a house.
The eight
- 2Industry
The false count's living is preying on wives, not a trade anyone should keep.
- 2Household
Bored wives are the prey, and one of them is married to a diplomat.
- 1Piety
The false count goes on preying on bored wives and does not stop himself.
- 2Courage
A false count in Monte Carlo preys on bored wives and trusts his manners.
- 3Republic
A diplomat's wife is one of the marks, so a public marriage is in the con.
- 1Temperance
He moves from bored wife to bored wife, and the want is the whole plot.
- 2Truth
The count is false, the manners are the fraud, and the cut print still shows him.
- 2Stewardship
Universal cut an expensive scandal, and the predator is what remains.
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