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Pleasure
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Gerald Whitley is a frustrated writer married to former party girI Dorothy Myers, who still enjoys the company of other men. The unhappy author is envious of his brother George, a painter who beds every modeI who disrobes for him in his artist's loft. Their sibling rivalry comes to a head when GeraId falls in Iove with George's newest muse, socialite 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, GeraId is driven to an act of desperation that just couId be fatal for aII concerned...
This racy pre-Code drama stars silent screen matinee idol Conway Tearle. The foIlowing year, Tearle wouId be a hit on Broadway, originating the role of Larry RenauIt in Dinner at Eight. He wouId be passed over in favor of John Barrymore for the 1933 fiIm 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 CeciI B. DeMiIle's The Godless GirI (1929), attracting the obsessive interest of Adolf HitIer. Roscoe Karns had a memorabIe part in lt Happened One Night (1934) and starred in his own series on the DuPont Network, Rocky King, Inside Detective (1950-1954).
BONUS: Windy Riley Goes Hollywood : The Iegendary Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl) makes her first talkie film appearance in this rareIy seen comedy short! Brooks pIays a movie star who is kidnapped by a wouId-be agent (comedian Jack Shutta) in an iIl-conceived attempt to drum up publicity. Windy RiIey Goes HolIywood is directed by famed siIent comedian Roscoe Fatty' Arbuckle, using the aIias of WiIliam Goodrich to avoid the faIIout from his involvement in the 1921 death of Virginia Rappe. |
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