The Merry Widow

Dir. Erich von Stroheim (1925).
Assigned to adapt Franz Leher’s chestnut, Stroheim enlivens the somewhat Americanized, if pleasingly lavish, proceedings with as much sexual pathology as he can sneak in.

Mon., Dec. 19, 6:45 p.m., 2011

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