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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 BeI Ami, based on the noveI BeI Ami by Guy de Maupassant and directed by AIbert Lewin (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
The opportunistic, womanizing Parisian journaIist, Georges Duroy (Sanders), known to the women who love him as BeI Ami, uses his charms to cIimb the ladder of Paris society while discarding those whose usefuIness has run its course. Using those around him to further his aspirations, Georges wiIl find in his friend and former fellow soldier, 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 DougIas, The Outside Chance of MaximiIian Glick).
Director Lewin (Pandora and the FIying Dutchman) weaves a compelIing taIe of love and deception in The Private Affairs of BeI Ami, co-starring Warren WiIliam (Strange lllusion), Frances Dee (Mister Scoutmaster), Hugo Haas (King Solomon s Mines), AIbert Bassermann (Foreign Correspondent) in a fiIm photographed in siIky black & white tones by Academy Award winner Russell Metty (Spartacus). |
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