Blind Husbands / The Great Gabbo [New DVD] Black & White, Special Ed, Silent M

Description: Blind Husbands / The Great Gabbo [New DVD] Black & White, Special Ed, Silent M Title: Blind Husbands / The Great Gabbo Format: DVD Label: Kino Lorber Genre: Drama-Classics, Drama-Classics (Silent Films) UPC: 738329024628 Release Date: 2003 Rarely in history has a single film catapulted a director to the forefront of world cinema, but the innovative style and sophisticated themes of Blind Husbands made Erich von Stroheim an immediate sensation, exposing the complex layers of repression, jealousy and lust that lie beneath the surface of an American couple's marriage. As they vacation in the Alps, a roguish officer (Von Stroheim) ensnares the wife (Francellia Billington) in a web of infidelity, testing her loyalty and ultimately challenging the manhood of her husband (Sam DeGrasse). One of Hollywood's earliest - and most peculiar - musicals, the Great Gabbo stars Von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingénue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail of garish stage shows and Austro-Hungarian villainy that is a diabolical delight.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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