Sunday, June 30, 2013

The Temptress (1926)

MGM
Directed by Fred Niblo
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)

Garbo and Antonio Moreno fall in love in Paris at a masquerade ball. She turns out to be married to an old friend of his, though not happily. He returns to his dam-building project on Argentina, but guess who shows up after going broke. The laborers spend too much of time throwing siestas for Garbo, including a flamboyant gaucho, leading to an interesting fight with whips with Moreno. The plot takes a turn into disaster epic when the gaucho blows up the dam and it is up to Moreno to save it. In an epilogue years later in Paris, Garbo is an alcoholic bum who sees Jesus sitting in a cafe.

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