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COMES THE REVOLUTION
Emil Jannings gave what some consider his finest performance, in The Last Command. This was a Paramount silent, directed by Josef von Sternberg, in which Jannings played an exiled Russian officer who becomes a Hollywood extra.
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Although Ernst Lubitsch and Emil Jannings had been director and star, respectively, in some of the finest pictures to come out of Germany, their paths didn't cross in America until 1928, when they made The Patriot for Paramount. In it Jannings had one of his best roles, that of the mad Tsar Paul I of Russia. His leading lady was Florence Vidor, shown here. Lewis Stone was Count Pahlen. When his contract ended, Jannings returned to Germany.
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With The Wedding March, a 1928 silent, Erich von Stroheim accomplished the difficult feat of breaking
his own record for extravagance. He started shooting in June, 1926, and stopped in late spring, 1927, with about twenty-two reels of film in the cans. He spent the ensuing year trying to cut it down to ten reels, with no success. The exasperated Paramount management finally assigned several other cutters to the job. They managed to cut it to size, but the finished film was uneven and disjointed. Even so, much of the film was remarkably fine, and the photography was excellent. This scene shows von Stroheim as a Viennese nobleman; Zasu Pitts, as the lame princess whom he is forced to marry; and (left) Fay Wray as his true love.
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Another picture Josef von Sternberg directed for Paramount in 1928 was Docks of New York. It was a story of the underworld, and featured Betty Compson and George Bancroft.