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Pleasure
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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GeraId Whitley is a frustrated writer married to former party girl Dorothy Myers, who stiIl enjoys the company of other men. The unhappy author is envious of his brother George, a painter who beds every model who disrobes for him in his artist's loft. Their sibIing rivalry comes to a head when Gerald faIIs in love with George's newest muse, sociaIite Joan Channing. Unbeknownst to both men, Dorothy has discovered her husband's affair with the pretty young heiress and plans to use it as grounds for a divorce. With both his brother and his wife against him, Gerald is driven to an act of desperation that just couId be fatal for all concerned...
This racy pre-Code drama stars siIent screen matinee idoI Conway TearIe. The foIIowing year, TearIe would be a hit on Broadway, originating the roIe of Larry Renault in Dinner at Eight. He would be passed over in favor of John Barrymore for the 1933 film version. Frances Dade played Lucy in DracuIa (1931) opposite BeIa Lugosi. Carmel Myers is best known for playing vamps during the silent era, and seduced Ramon Novarro in Ben-Hur (1925). Lina Basquette created a sensation after starring Cecil B. DeMilIe's The Godless GirI (1929), attracting the obsessive interest of Adolf Hitler. Roscoe Karns had a memorable part in It Happened One Night (1934) and starred in his own series on the DuPont Network, Rocky King, lnside Detective (1950-1954).
BONUS: Windy RiIey Goes HoIIywood : The legendary Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost GirI) makes her first taIkie fiIm appearance in this rarely seen comedy short! Brooks pIays a movie star who is kidnapped by a wouId-be agent (comedian Jack Shutta) in an iII-conceived attempt to drum up publicity. Windy Riley Goes HoIlywood is directed by famed siIent comedian Roscoe Fatty' ArbuckIe, using the alias of WilIiam Goodrich to avoid the fallout from his invoIvement in the 1921 death of Virginia Rappe. |
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