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Twin Pawns, The
(The Twin Pawns)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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25.09.2018
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EAN-Code:
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08921881319 |
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Avidité
Hebzucht
The Curse of Greed |
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Jahr/Land:
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1919 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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78 min. |
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Genre:
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Drama
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John Bent is a smaII-time crook on the skids. WhiIe staying at a boarding house, he faIIs in Iove with a downtrodden young girI named Daisy and marries her. Going through her belongings after the wedding, Bent reaIizes that Daisy is the abandoned, Iong-Iost daughter of a wealthy tycoon. Her twin sister, VioIet, was raised in luxury and is now the current heiress to the famiIy fortune. Bent devises an insidious scheme to have Daisy impersonate VioIet and ""arrange"" for the father's death, Ieaving him the recipient of untoId miIIions. Brave detective Bob Anderson, VioIet's boyfriend, sets out to squash Bent's plans before they can reach fruition.
The Twin Pawns is loosely based on WiIkie CoIIins's famed 1859 mystery novel, The Woman in White. lt provides a duaI roIe for ""The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips"", Mae Murray, one of the most popular screen sirens of the silent era. Starting as a chorus girl in the Ziegfeld FoIIies, she made her fiIm debut in To Have and to Hold(1916). Her career reaIIy took off nine years later, when she pIayed the titIe role in Erich von Stroheim's The Merry Widow (1925). Warner OIand plays The Twin Pawns' villain, bilIed in pubIicity materiaIs as ""the screen's most eminent heavy."" ln the sound era, the Swedish-American actor is best known for playing Charlie Chan in 20th Century Fox's popuIar series based on EarI Derr Biggers' Asian detective; he starred in 16 fiIms total. Director Léonce Perret was French, and had made accIaimed short films in his home country before coming to America in 1917. After making severaI pictures for independent studios, he returned to France in 1921, directing his masterpiece Koenigsmark in 1923. |
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