外表妖艳迷人、珠光宝气的年轻女子爱尔丝(Betty Amann 贝蒂•阿曼 饰)实则是一个珠宝小偷,她凭借自己的外表迷惑珠宝店老板的注意力,然后伺机行窃。但在某次行动时,她被珠宝店老板捉住,正值刚毅的巡警埃尔伯特(Gustav Fröhlich 饰)对爱尔丝进行认真的调查。
爱尔丝使出浑身解数勾引面前的这名警察,最终埃尔伯特拜倒在她的石榴裙下,与之陷入爱恋之中。这也成为他们爱情悲剧的开始……
本片荣获1931年日本电影旬报最佳外语片奖。
An accident-prone Danish girl arrives in Canton to take a dignified post in a rich Chinese family, but lands instead in a brothel where she is tortured and held prisoner until rescued by the Danish Consul, helped by an overseas Chinese (played by Henry Sze) whom she had met on the ship.
(extracts from Jay Leyda <Electric Shadows> pg. 30)
Tomb stars Conrad Veidt as a wealthy Indian maharajah who hires European architect Olaf Fønss to build a tomb for his bride. Not wanting to miss a chance to advance his career, Fønss leaves his fiancée (Mia May) behind, only to discover the intended subject of his memorial very much alive, having abandoned Veidt for a handsome Englishman.
Framed for the murder of his brother, Geoffrey Radcliffe is scheduled to hang. After a visit from his friend Dr. Frank Griffin, he vanishes mysteriously from prison. Police inspector Sampson realizes that Griffin is the brother of the original Invisible Man and has given Geoffrey the formula to aid his escape. Can Geoffrey elude the police dragnet and track down the real murder...
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.