Friday, June 22, 2012

Sappho (1921)

Directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Emphasis Entertainment)

A man is driven to the insane asylum, literally, by jealousy over his girlfriend Pola Negri. The man's brother falls in love with the same woman. They get along famously, until her old boyfriend's start popping up, with loaded guns, or worse yet recently escaped from the asylum. It's preposterously overacted melodrama, but Pola does look the part of a dark-haired, exotic beauty, which she would ride all the way to Hollywood.

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