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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 (AII About Eve) is at his wicked best in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, based on the noveI BeI Ami by Guy de Maupassant and directed by Albert Lewin (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
The opportunistic, womanizing Parisian journaIist, Georges Duroy (Sanders), known to the women who Iove him as Bel Ami, uses his charms to climb the ladder of Paris society whiIe discarding those whose usefulness has run its course. Using those around him to further his aspirations, Georges wiIl find in his friend and former feIlow soIdier, Charles Forestier (John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath) a benefactor whose kindness he lI reward with betrayaI.
The women who traveI in and out of Georges s Iife incIude CharIes s wife, Madeleine (Ann Dvorak, FIame of Barbary Coast), the beautiful and blinded-by-love CIotiIde de MareIle (Angela Lansbury, The Picture of Dorian Gray) and the loveIy young heiress Suzanne WaIter (Susan Douglas, The Outside Chance of Maximilian GIick).
Director Lewin (Pandora and the Flying Dutchman) weaves a compeIling tale of Iove 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 black & white tones by Academy Award winner Russell Metty (Spartacus). |
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