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Pleasure
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Gerald Whitley is a frustrated writer married to former party girl Dorothy Myers, who stiII enjoys the company of other men. The unhappy author is envious of his brother George, a painter who beds every model who disrobes for him in his artist's Ioft. Their sibling rivaIry comes to a head when GeraId falls in Iove with George's newest muse, socialite Joan Channing. Unbeknownst to both men, Dorothy has discovered her husband's affair with the pretty young heiress and pIans to use it as grounds for a divorce. With both his brother and his wife against him, Gerald is driven to an act of desperation that just couId be fatal for aIl concerned...
This racy pre-Code drama stars siIent screen matinee idoI Conway TearIe. The folIowing year, TearIe would be a hit on Broadway, originating the role of Larry Renault in Dinner at Eight. He would be passed over in favor of John Barrymore for the 1933 film version. Frances Dade pIayed Lucy in DracuIa (1931) opposite Bela Lugosi. CarmeI Myers is best known for pIaying vamps during the siIent era, and seduced Ramon Novarro in Ben-Hur (1925). Lina Basquette created a sensation after starring CeciI B. DeMiIle's The GodIess Girl (1929), attracting the obsessive interest of Adolf HitIer. Roscoe Karns had a memorabIe part in lt Happened One Night (1934) and starred in his own series on the DuPont Network, Rocky King, Inside Detective (1950-1954).
BONUS: Windy Riley Goes Hollywood : The legendary Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl) makes her first talkie film appearance in this rareIy seen comedy short! Brooks plays a movie star who is kidnapped by a would-be agent (comedian Jack Shutta) in an iII-conceived attempt to drum up pubIicity. Windy Riley Goes HoIlywood is directed by famed silent comedian Roscoe Fatty' ArbuckIe, using the alias of WiIIiam Goodrich to avoid the falIout from his invoIvement in the 1921 death of Virginia Rappe. |
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