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Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

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Date: 23 Jul 2015 22:03:00
Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

Queen Kelly (1929)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:40:46 | 7,11 Gb
Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps with English intertitles and Spanish subs
Genre: Drama, Classics

Director: Erich von Stroheim
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen

In 1928, after years of struggles within the studio system, Erich von Stroheim found the opportunity to create his crowning achievement: a storybook romance of intoxicating beauty, counterbalanced with a frightfully grim tale of moral corruption. Gloria Swanson stars as an innocent convent girl who falls under the spell of a handsome prince (Walter Byron) on the eve of his marriage to a diabolical queen (Seena Owen).

Queen Kelly might have been one of von Stroheim's greatest films had actress/producer Swanson not halted it in mid-production. Kino on Video presents the critically-acclaimed restoration of von Stroheim's ambitious epic, which incorporates many of the scenes (set within an African brothel) that caused Swanson to shut down the film. Also featured on this disc are rare outtakes, Swanson's alternate ending, and a little-seen TV performance by von Stroheim.

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Queen Kelly is one of the few films that deserves the word "legendary." Film students know it as the "lost" silent masterpiece of Erich Von Stroheim, the film that he was not allowed to complete and that ruined him as a director. Von Stroheim intended for Kelly to be a five hour exploration of the title character and her ill-fated romance with a prince, but only about a third of the film was actually shot, and so what is left is very incomplete, but fascinating.

Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

Clearly on view is Von Stroheim's visual flair; there are numerous shots of sublime beauty or stunning drama. Von Stroheim, with a reputation of being intense, also indulges in some lighter moments, as in the "meet cute" scene in which Kelly loses her bloomers when meeting the Prince. But that intensity, combined with perversity, also is in evidence, most notably in the breathtaking sequence in which the reigning Queen chases Kelly away while lashing her mercilessly with a whip.

Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

It's impossible to know what the final product might have been like, but what exists is tantalizing. It's also not without flaws, among them the fact that star Gloria Swanson is too old (and too worldly) to be acceptable as the teen-aged orphan she plays in the portion of the film that has survived. Still, Swanson demonstrates again that she was a unique and priceless talent of the silent era, and she is well supported by Seena Owen's lasciviously vicious Queen and Walter Byron's intriguing Prince. A lost masterpiece? One can't say, but it's a captivating fragment.
Craig Butler, Rovi
Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

Legendary silent director Erich von Stroheim and legendary silent movie star Gloria Swanson made almost one movie together. Production on the ill fated Queen Kelly was halted only one third of the way through the script. The sudden popularity of talkies added to the mounting expenses caused by the extravagance of the eccentric filmmaker led the producers, Joseph Kennedy and Swanson herself, to abandon the project midway.

Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

What remains today is an incomplete masterpiece. The attention to lavish detail is truly amazing. Like other von Stroheim vehicles this one would have run very long, nearly five hours in fact. Only about 100 minutes of film exist today.

Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

Queen Kelly tells the story of a young convent girl who meets Prince Wolfram von Hohenberg Falsenstein the consort of the mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. He meets her walking along a country rode with the other nuns in the convent. When he points out, with a laugh, that her unmentionables have fallen around her ankles, she angrily takes them off and throws them in his face. He is instantly smitten by her charms. So much so that later that night, after the Queen has announced that their wedding shall take place the very next day, he sneaks out of the castle, goes to the convent, abducts the sleeping girl and stupidly, brings her back to the palace. In the midst of falling in love they are interrupted by the Queen. In a rage she sends the Prince to prison and mercilessly whips the young girl with a riding crop.

Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

From here the story jumps to Kelly being sent to Africa to take care of her dying Aunt. Kelly quickly learns that 'missionary' was just a front for 'whorehouse' and that she is now in the clutches of wicked people. Only a small bit of this section of the movie was completed. Through sub-titles we learn that the Prince eventually gets out of prison, learns of Kelly's whereabouts and comes to her rescue. By now she is the ruling Madame, known as Queen Kelly because of her regal arrogance (Alas, no actual film survives of Gloria in her whore get-up, only a few stills). In a Hollywood twist the Prince forgives her and when they learn that the Queen has been assassinated they return together in glory to take over the throne.

Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

When Norma Desmond says her famous line “We had faces then." in Sunset Boulevard it is a scene from Queen Kelly that she is watching. Even more ironically, von Stroheim as Max is running the movie projector.

Thankfully today we have at least part of this flawed yet intriguing movie in a newly restored version.
Three Movie Buffs
Queen Kelly (1929) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Audio commentary by biographer Richard Koszarski
- Rare outtake footage
- The Kino International restored ending
- The "Swanson Ending"
- Videotaped introduction by Gloria Swanson
- Excerpt of the original screenplay
- Production documents
- Photo gallery
- "Man of Many Skins," a 1952 TV performance (26:16)
- Audio clips of cinematographer Paul Ivano, assistant William Marguiles, Allan Dwan, and Billy Wilder
- Dossier on Merry-Go-Round, with excerpts of scenes directed by von Stroheim
- A note on the film by Erich von Stroheim

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