| Brief Description: | This witty satire on the American businessman and the Prussian
aristocracy tells the story of Ossi (Ossi Oswalda), whose American
"Oyster King" father promises to buy her a prince to marry. The victim
recommended by their marriage broker is Prince Nucki, who lives in a
run-down apartment with his friend Josef. What follows is one of the
most lavish weddings ever filmed, but the wedding night is not at all
what the "princess" had in mind. With Harry Liedtke, Viktor Janson,
Julius Falkenstein and Curt Bois. Silent with English intertitles. "A
summoning up of everything Lubitsch had learned about the art of
comedy" (Herman G. Weinberg, in The Lubitsch Touch). |
