The Exquisite Sinner (1926)
1h
Running Time
March 28, 1926Release Date
The Exquisite Sinner (1926)
1h
Running Time
March 28, 1926Release Date
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Plot.
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen.
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Cast & Crew.
Conrad Nagel
Dominique Prad
Renée Adorée
Silda - a gypsy maid
Paulette Duval
Yvonne
Frank Currier
Colonel
George K. Arthur
Colonel's Orderly
Matthew Betz
Gypsy Chief
Phil Rosen
Director
Josef von Sternberg
Director
Media.
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Wiki.
The Exquisite Sinner is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and adapted by Alice Duer Miller from the novel Escape by Alden Brooks. Starring Conrad Nagel and Renée Adorée, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) never given a general release. No known print of the film has been recovered to date. Later that same year a second feature film Heaven on Earth, directed by Phil Rosen was released with the same cast and same sets, but a different screenplay. Rosen's version performed poorly at the box office. Sternberg reported, "the result was two ineffective films instead of one.” The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute.