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Shadows of Paris (1924)

Shadows of Paris poster
Directed by
Herbert Brenon
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from the Paris underworld works as an apache dancer and later becomes wealthy. The story follows her rise in post-World War I Paris.

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What happens

Shadows of Paris is a lost 1924 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Pola Negri, Charles de Rochefort, and Huntley Gordon. The screenplay involves a young woman who rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-World War I Paris. It was based on the play Mon Homme by Francis Carco and André Picard. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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