A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
查理(伊恩·基思 Ian Keith 饰)爱上了厨师的女儿艾玛(科琳·格里菲斯 Corinne Griffith 饰),然而,这段感情是注定不会受到众人的祝福的,为了避免东窗事发,查理将艾玛送到了自己的叔叔汉密尔顿(HB·沃纳 H.B. Warner 饰)家。
没过多久,艾玛就识破了查理的谎言,明白自己其实是被后者无情的抛弃了。绝望和愤怒之中,她决定嫁给一直对自己很好的汉密尔顿,可是这段仓促的婚姻很显然并不能给艾玛带来真正的幸福。一天,艾玛结识了名为尼尔森(维克特·凡科尼 Victor Varconi 饰)的军官,为了能够让尼尔森在港口同拿破仑的军队交战,艾玛不惜抛头露面四处奔走,一来二去之间,两人相爱了。
This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY). It is a straight-forward telling of the intermingled lives of a group of strangers doomed to die in a collapsing bridge accident. The Art Direction, paltry and unremarkable, surprisingly won an Oscar over the far more remarkable work nominated in THE IRON MASK. The special effect scene of the lovers plummeting with the bridge into the chasm is unforgettable and remarkably done.
两名美国士兵在第一次世界大战中,从德国设在阿拉伯的战俘营冒险越狱