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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Not For Children Movie Release: 1922 DVD Release: 09/26/2000 Format: DVD SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 21 mins Studio: Image Entertainment Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Drama See Also: Foolish Wives

Actor/ writer/ director Erich Von Stroheim stars as a fraudulent count, living high on the hog in Monte Carlo. He supports himself by extorting huge sums of money from silly married ladies who are dumb enough to fall for his romantic charms. Von Stroheim's partners in crime, phony princesses Mae Busch and Maud George, live in a state of perpetual depravity with the count in a huge mansion. Their latest victim, played by an actress who insisted upon being billed as Miss DuPont, is the wife of an American financier. Von Stroheim's attempted seduction of this particular foolish wife is thwarted at every turn, and the count ultimately gets his comeuppance. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Erich Von Stroheim - Count Sergius Karamzin, Capt. of 3rd Hussars Imperial
Rudolph Christians - Andrew J. Hughes
Miss Du Pont - Mrs. Helen Hughes
Maude George - Princess Olga Petschnikoff
Mae Busch - Princess Vera Petschnikoff

One of many compromised projects from the gifted, but difficult, director and star Erich Von Stroheim, Foolish Wives makes its way onto DVD in a quality, restored presentation. The film has been transferred to disc in its original full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and the new recording of the film's musical score has been mastered in Dolby Digital Stereo. The title cards are in English only. No bonus material has been included in this edition. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide