6.4
Foolish Wives (1922)
January 11, 19222h 23mEN
6.4
104 votes
Overview
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
Director
Erich von StroheimWriters
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Free
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
No Language
Budget
$1.1M
Revenue
$400K
Production Companies
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
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CinemaSerf
6.0It's a soap. Despite all the associated history of cuts, recuts and restoration it is still just a beautifully photographed soap opera. Erich von Stroheim did just about everything in this entertaining, if a little too cyclical, tale of a cad. That cad "Count Sergius Karanzim" (EVS) parades around the Côte D'Azur luring unsuspecting (wealthy) women to his rented villa in which he, with his two "cousins" (Maude George & Mae Busch as the Princesses "Petchnikoff") fleeces them relentlessly. For quite a while his charm, wit and guile provides them with a good living until he aims a little too high…
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