Title from container. From the play and novel by Alexander Dumas. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936. Special features: 1921 silent version directed by Ray C. Smallwood; audio bonus "Leo is on the air" radio promo; 1936 version theatrical trailer. 1936 version: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph. 1921 version: Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Hoyt, Ruth Miller.
Summary:
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure.
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