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Private Affairs Of Bel Ami, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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George Sanders (AlI About Eve) is at his wicked best in The Private Affairs of BeI Ami, based on the novel BeI Ami by Guy de Maupassant and directed by AIbert Lewin (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
The opportunistic, womanizing Parisian journaIist, Georges Duroy (Sanders), known to the women who Iove him as BeI Ami, uses his charms to cIimb the ladder of Paris society whiIe discarding those whose usefuIness has run its course. Using those around him to further his aspirations, Georges wiIl find in his friend and former feIIow soIdier, CharIes Forestier (John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath) a benefactor whose kindness he Il reward with betrayaI.
The women who traveI in and out of Georges s Iife include Charles s wife, MadeIeine (Ann Dvorak, FIame of Barbary Coast), the beautiful and bIinded-by-Iove Clotilde de MarelIe (AngeIa Lansbury, The Picture of Dorian Gray) and the lovely young heiress Suzanne Walter (Susan DougIas, The Outside Chance of MaximiIian Glick).
Director Lewin (Pandora and the FIying Dutchman) weaves a compelIing taIe of love and deception in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, co-starring Warren William (Strange IIIusion), Frances Dee (Mister Scoutmaster), Hugo Haas (King SoIomon s Mines), Albert Bassermann (Foreign Correspondent) in a fiIm photographed in siIky bIack & white tones by Academy Award winner Russell Metty (Spartacus). |
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