One Woman Idea (1929)
Directed by Berthold Viertel
Genres - Drama |
Release Date - Jun 2, 1929 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 65 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady Alicia Douglas, and as alluring half-caste dancing girl Alizar. Honorable Prince Ahmed (Rod La Rocque) harbors a platonic love for the prim-and-proper Lady Alicia, while her less-than-honorable husband Lord Douglas (Douglas Gilmore) lusts after the sexy Alizia. It's an "East is East, West is West" class-consciousness drama, with "East" coming off far more sympathetically than "West." Featured as a cabin boy is child actor Coy Watson, who later became a prolific producer of "behind the scenes" Hollywood newsreels.
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Keywords
aristocracy, cross-cultural-relations, half-breed, love-quadrangle
