The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1919)

Directed by

Henry Edwards

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film

Country

United Kingdom

Rated

NR

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman plans to marry a wealthy man for financial stability but has a change of heart at the last moment. She realizes that true happiness lies in marrying for love instead.

romanticbittersweetpoeticunderstatedearnestemotionalquietoptimistic

What happens

City of Beautiful Nonsense is a 1919 British silent film drama directed by Henry Edwards, who also starred in the film with Chrissie White. The film is based on the best-selling 1909 novel of the same name by E. Temple Thurston, and is a tale of a woman intending to marry for financial gain and security, who realises at the last minute that to be true to herself and to have the prospect of a happy future she must instead marry for love. A sound version of the same story was made in 1935 by Adrian Brunel. The film appears to have been well received and popular with audiences, and has been described as "the most talked about British film of 1919" and "technically on a par with the current Hollywood imports". A contemporary review in The Bioscope admired Edwards' "poetic embellishments" and "symbolistic touches". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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