The Exquisite Sinner (1926)

Directed by

Robert Florey, Phil Rosen, Josef von Sternberg

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rated

NR

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama about a person trying to escape their circumstances. The film was never released to the public and no known copies exist today.

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What happens

The Exquisite Sinner is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and adapted by Alice Duer Miller from the novel Escape by Alden Brooks. Starring Conrad Nagel and Renée Adorée, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) never given a general release. No known print of the film has been recovered to date. Later that same year a second feature film Heaven on Earth, directed by Phil Rosen was released with the same cast and same sets, but a different screenplay. Rosen's version performed poorly at the box office. Sternberg reported, "the result was two ineffective films instead of one.” The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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