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...loves him and attempts to regenerate him again and again, and his friend, who loves his wife but also does his best to restore domestic happiness, are the other two main characters of the story. The friend is played by Gustav Diessel, an actor strongly reminiscent of Conrad Veidt, and a worthy rival of the German player. On the whole, the acting is extremely well done, especially so since all the parts are extremely difficult...
...adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets left in the new draw. The picture is a study of what this does to Telegrapher Conrad Veidt, whose ability to interpret the effect of mental sickness on human behavior surpasses even that of famed Alexander Moissi (TIME, Jan. 6). Veidt plays the part slowly, subtly, compellingly, lifting a superior program picture into authentic tragedy. Best shot: 413 dainty ladies, in costumes of the '90s, on their...
...explained in a foreword to the U. S. edition of the production, which was made by a German company in Rome. It might, at slight expense, have been made in Hollywood, for nothing much is done with Roman street scenes and most of the best shots are interiors. Conrad Veidt, in armor, dies after a broadsword fight with his sister's third husband...
...Laughs (Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin)-Victor Hugo's novel well done...
...LAUGHS (Conrad Veidt), TEMPEST (John Barrymore), RAMONA (Dolores Del Rio), SADIE THOMPSON (Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore), THE CROWD (Eleanor Boardman, directed by King Vidor...