Bardelys the Magnificent
In the reign of King Louis XIII, dashing rogue and libertine Marquis de Bardelys is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan. Against a background of knavery and intrigue he sets out to woo and win her.
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"Well first of all, M. BEAUCAIRE is Booth Tarkington and not Sabatini but it's still a pleasure to see this as an early entry in the MGM Sabatini cycle, along with a couple of Scaramouches, especially when it had been lost for so long. The copy seems incomplete outside the missing reel. Where is Edward Connelly's Cardinal Richelieu? The subject is not a good match with the talents of King Vidor. La BOHEME is a much better film and it appears perverse to have him do it, when Victor Seastrom, one of the originators and masters of the costume movie was on the MGM pay roll. Vidor gives i..."
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For decades, Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) was presumed lost. The one tantalizing glimpse of the film was in King Vidor's spoof of movie stardom, Show People (1928), when Marion Davies' movie-mad character watches it in a theater and swoons over the willows love scene. But in 2006, a nearly complete print was found in France. Bardelys was restored despite the print missing reel 3, but the absent passages have been reconstructed with shots liberated from the film's trailer, excellent production scene stills and a studio continuity script.
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In the reign of King Louis XIII, dashing rogue and libertine Marquis de Bardelys is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan. Against a background of knavery and intrigue he sets out to woo and win her.