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DVD : The WildcatIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig directed by: Ernst Lubitsch  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0738329051822 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Silent, NTSC Label: Kino Video Manufacturer: Kino Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino Video Release Date: December 05, 2006 Running Time: 82 minutes Studio: Kino Video Theatrical Release Date: 1921 Sales Rank: 90724 MPN: D5182D Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Silent but deadly dullI feel like a bit of a Philistine for not appreciating this silent German comedy more. Despite many interesting visual flairs, such as the inventive set designs and the use of offbeat framing techniques, I couldn't see it as anything more than a very slight, silly story that went on far longer than it needed to. It failed the most fundamental test for any comedy: I did not crack a smile even once. Rating:  - And now for something completely different...Of the four DVDs in the `Lubitsch in Berlin' series, "The Wildcat" surely stands out as the most bizarre and uniquely different, especially when compared to all the other well-known German silent films with their seriousness and gloomy Expressionist styles. In total contrast to the work of his contemporaries, namely other legendary directors like Fritz Lang, FW Murnau and GW Pabst, Ernst Lubitsch had a style of his own, and "The Wildcat" is a prime example. Today this comedy can be compared to ... Read More Rating: - Die BergkatzeAlexis, a notorious soldier (Paul Heidemann), is sent away to get away from all the women that can't resist his charms. There he is handed the daughter of his commander, but he finds himself enchanted by a ruffian who stole his pants on his journey to his new home. Rischka (Pola Negri) has been brought up to give orders and to take what she wants. Her father and a band of theives target Alexis's new home, but little do they know that Rischka plans to start a romance with him. This movie ... Read More Rating: - An Imaginative FilmErnst Lubisch described this film as a "Grotesque in Four Acts" but it is probably more simply described as a satiric comedy. The subject of the film is the army and coming so soon after the First World War I wondered what audiences than made of indulged military life of the fort commander (whose main concern is to have his daughter married) and Lieutenant Alexis whose only occupation is womanizing. The plot is very simple: Lieutenant Alexis is being posted to the commander's fort (which is supposed ... Read More Rating: - Best of the Lubitsch slapstick farces released by KinoFor all the exotic places depicted in his later films-- Monte Carlo, Venice, the mittel-European settings of The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg or The Shop Around the Corner, Stalin's Russia, Hitler-occupied Poland-- Lubitsch never returned to the wildly cartoonish style on evidence in these early comedies released by Kino, which are quite eye-opening, full of wild curlicues of plaster, fortresses that look like birthday cakes, staircases that descend a quarter-mile amid running water. They're undeniable ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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