In This Modern Age, a young American football player moves to Paris and gets caught in a web of complicated relationships involving his parents, a socialite, and a mother-daughter reunion. Set in the art-deco apartments of Paris, the film explores themes of reconciliation, deception, and self-sacrifice, all against the backdrop of a glamorous nightclub scene.
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
Blind Husbands is a romantic drama set in the picturesque Dolomites, where a philanderer attempts to seduce a neglected wife while her husband is recovering from a broken arm. The story unfolds against the backdrop of mountain-climbing adventures, hotel room flirts, and a religious festival. Will the husband and wife reconcile or will the philanderer succeed in his seduction?
A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
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