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The temptress / personally directed by Fred Niblo ; scenario by Dorothy Farnum ; a Cosmopolitan production.
LIBRA DVD PN1997 .T356 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Archive collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928--Film adaptations.
- Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente.
- Mistresses--Drama.
- Mistresses.
- Love--Drama.
- Love.
- Alcoholism--Drama.
- Alcoholism.
- Paris (France)--Drama.
- Paris (France).
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Silent films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (90 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Turner Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2009.
- Language Note:
- Silent film with English intertitles and added musical accompaniment.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentatiion; Dolby Digital mono.
- Summary:
- An unhappy wife (Elena) falls in love with a Spanish engineer (Robledo). When it is revealed that Elena is not only married, but has also been the mistress of a banker (Fontenoy), Robledo returns to South America. Years later Robledo returns to Paris and runs into Elena who does not seem to recognize him. Elena has become a pathetic drunkard who is apparently beyond Robledo's help.
- Participant:
- Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Marc MacDermott, Lionel Barrymore, Armand Kaliz, Roy D'Arcy.
- Credits:
- Original score by Michael Picton.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents Vincente Blasco Ibanez'.
- Based on the novel La tierra de todos by Vicente Blasco-Ibáñez.
- Videodisc release of the 1926 motion picture.
- "MOD disc. This disc is expected to play back in DVD video 'play only' devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 417675933
- Publisher Number:
- 883316126776
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