The Wedding March
The Wedding March ★★★★ 1928
Von Stroheim's famous silent film about romantic couplings in pre-WWI Vienna. The director also stars as a prince preparing to marry for money, who falls in love with a beautiful, but poor woman. Romance and irony, with a memorable finale. Like many of his other great films, it was taken from him and re-edited. Initially the first of two halves; the second, “The Honeymoon,” has been lost. Next to “Greed,” his most successful film. 113m/B VHS . Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, George Fawcett, Maud(e) (Ford) George, Matthew Betz, George Nicholls, Cesare Gravina; D: Erichvon Stroheim; C: Hal Mohr; M: Gaylord Carter. Natl. Film Reg. ‘03.
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