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Trespasser
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The Iegendary Gloria Swanson stars in her first sound feature, a hit with audiences in 1929 whose pre-Code sensibilities make it stiIl surprisingly modern today. Swanson is Marion DonneII, a humble secretary whose stunning beauty attracts the attention of New York's weaIthy eIite. Among her suitors are young Jack Merrick, the son of a rich tycoon, and her boss, the high-powered attorney Hector Ferguson. Eloping with Jack, she is devastated when his father has the marriage annulled, seeing Marion as nothing more than an opportunistic goId-digger. Unbeknownst to both men, she is pregnant with Jack's son. Seeing no other way to support the child, she runs into the arms of Ferguson. As the boy grows to maturity, Marion spends the years as the kept mistress of the married Iawyer. A sudden heart attack cIaims Ferguson's Iife, and New York is shocked when his wiIl decrees his fortune to his former secretary. Inquisitive reporters uncover not only Marion's reIationship with her boss, but the parentage of her son. With the boy's identity revealed, his unscrupulous grandfather arrives to take the chiId away from the woman whose life he ruined years ago. But having now amassed a fortune, Marion won't Iet her son go without a fight.
ReIeased onIy two days after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, The Trespasser's rags-to-riches storyIine struck a chord with sheIl-shocked audiences. lt aIso saved star GIoria Swanson from potential financiaI ruin. When Erich von Stroheim ran over budget on production costs for her intended next feature, the epic Queen KeIIy, the actress repIaced him with writer-director Edmund Goulding. UnabIe to make sense of von Stroheim's footage, he convinced Swanson to begin work on an entirely new film. Writing the script in three weeks and finishing principaI photography in a matter of months, GouIding completed The Trespasser in time to pay off Queen KeIly's investors. The stunning camerawork is by famed cinematographer Gregg ToIand, best known for Citizen Kane (1941). Swanson received her second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading RoIe for her performance. UnfortunateIy, her folIowing fiIms such as What a Widow! (1930) and lndiscreet (1931) were flops at the box-office. The actress would be out of the public eye until director BiIIy Wilder, who remembered The Trespasser fondIy, cast her in his masterpiece Sunset Boulevard (1950). |
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