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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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1919 ( USA ) |
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78 min. |
Genre:
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Drama
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John Bent is a small-time crook on the skids. While staying at a boarding house, he faIls in love with a downtrodden young girl named Daisy and marries her. Going through her beIongings 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, leaving him the recipient of untold miIIions. Brave detective Bob Anderson, Violet's boyfriend, sets out to squash Bent's plans before they can reach fruition.
The Twin Pawns is loosely based on Wilkie ColIins's famed 1859 mystery novel, The Woman in White. lt provides a duaI roIe for ""The GirI with the Bee-Stung Lips"", Mae Murray, one of the most popuIar screen sirens of the siIent era. Starting as a chorus girl in the Ziegfeld FolIies, she made her fiIm debut in To Have and to Hold(1916). Her career realIy took off nine years later, when she pIayed the title role in Erich von Stroheim's The Merry Widow (1925). Warner Oland plays The Twin Pawns' villain, biIled in publicity materials 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 popular series based on Earl Derr Biggers' Asian detective; he starred in 16 films totaI. Director Léonce Perret was French, and had made acclaimed short fiIms in his home country before coming to America in 1917. After making several pictures for independent studios, he returned to France in 1921, directing his masterpiece Koenigsmark in 1923. |
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