This charming film is practically unknown, but it is one of Klein-Rogge's best performances, as he plays a romantic lead with a dash of villainy. Klein-Rogge is the feared Master who lives in a bleak castle on top of a mountain, and the villagers in the valley below dread his ill-omened arrival at every wedding. The story concerns one couple who marries despite the master's baleful influence, only to have him crash their wedding party and bring about the death of the bride. The bride's sister, seeking revenge, tries to kill the Master but instead they fall in love, as she realizes that he is not really evil, but blighted by a loveless existence. Their love is ill-starred, however, as the Master kills an insolent guest at their wedding who takes liberties with his bride, and this is followed by a peasants' revolt, where the castle is stormed and the Master captured. In the end, the lovers escape, but their love is finally doomed. The year before this film, Klein-Rogge had his great triumph as the evil Dr. Mabuse in Fritz Lang's 'Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler', and his most memorable roles have been as villains. This movie demonstrates what a really wide range he had as an actor - he starts off with his very characteristic glowering villain, but once the girl enters his life he demonstrates both joy and tenderness, as well as grief and pain when he thinks he has lost everything. I don't know if such an obscure film could be a candidate for restoration, but it would be a worthy project, as the sets, costumes and many of the performances are as classic examples of expressionism as one could hope to see. "Die schwarze Natter" shows the director with a fine example of the 'Sensationsfilm', i.e. a pulpy adventure much in the vein of the early crime serials of Feuillade and others. Two agents from different sides are working in a circus, one - the Schwarze Natter (Black Adder)- as a dancer, the other as a horseback artist. The Schwarze Natter is informed that the other is receiving information by one of the visitors this night, who is also in love with her. She is trying to get him and the information herself, making it look like the other side has her finger in this incident. But an officer of the local police had an eye on them, because some things happening before made him suspicious and starts playing his little game. The film depicts, in three acts and an epilogue, the story of a clumsy clerk, Siegmund Lachmann (Ernst Lubitsch , who, after been fired for having broken accidentally the shop window where he works, goes to Berlin in order to get a new job in a prestigious fashion salon. Our hero finds himself surrounded by Teutonic beauties, that is to say, fat frä(👊)ulein models that wear the latest fashions of the 1910's. Pretty soon he will be attracted to a young rich girl but with the opposition of her father. 英俊青年麦克尔（Walter Slezak 饰）是画家苏(🖨)莱(🐃)特(tè )的专属模特(💓)，以(🌫)麦(mài )克尔(ěr )为(🐟)原(🤑)型(🍶)，苏莱(lái )特创作出(😻)了精(jīng )美的(de )艺术(💡)作(🍆)品，名(míng )声大(dà )噪，登门求画(huà )的人(🚄)(ré(🍭)n )络绎不绝，但苏莱(lá(♓)i )特为了保存和(🆖)麦(🍱)克(⛷)(kè )尔的美(měi )好回忆拒绝(jué )出卖杰(🔋)(jié(🔉) )作。年轻貌(mào )美的女(🐧)(nǚ )伯爵拜访苏(🤤)(sū(🧗) )莱(🎛)特，请求后者为(wé(🏪)i )自己画(huà )像，麦克(🤕)尔(🧡)(ěr )默默注(zhù )视着女伯爵，四目(mù )交(🦀)投(🛣)之下，情意暗(àn )生(🌧)，苏(🛰)莱特思量之(zhī(🏮) )后(📰)决(😏)定为女伯爵作(zuò(🍀) )画，但创作不久因(🥀)(yī(😋)n )苏莱特无法描(miáo )画女(nǚ )伯爵的眼(🦑)睛(🗿)而(ér )陷入(rù )停滞，麦(🛂)克尔(ěr )提笔(bǐ(🧚) )代(💆)劳(🚮)，女伯爵美丽(lì )的神色跃然画上…(🚝)…(🛢)麦克(kè )尔与女伯爵(⚾)(jué )相爱并(bìng )逐(🌹)渐(🚅)离(🕥)苏莱(lái )特而去(qù(👭) )，苏莱特承(chéng )受着(🦇)年(🔜)(nián )青人的欺骗(piàn )和背叛(pàn )，将内心(⌛)的(🖋)(de )悲苦呈(chéng )现在画(🏊)作(🗞)上，受孤(gū )独煎(🥛)熬(🎥)的(🔵)生命之火(huǒ )渐渐(🤦)熄灭…… A scientist creates a mechanical man but thieves steal it and send it out to kill and destroy a city. The only way to stop the creature is by creating another mechanical man to destroy it. This Italian horror film seems to have had an influence on Fritz Lang's Metropolis, at least in the look of the robots. It's hard to really judge the film since so much of it is missing but they did a good job at taking the current length and adding enough background so that we know what's going on. A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them. 《环(huán )球(👌)卫(👃)(wèi )士》讲述四个(gè )不合(hé )群的青少(📜)年(📦)亚(yà )历克斯、珍(👯)珍(🚇)(zhēn )、大(dà )流士(♋)和(💭)加(🔟)布里(lǐ )埃尔(ěr )参加了夏令营(yíng )，活(🥦)(huó(🏙) )动刚刚开始，外星(xī(📏)ng )人突然入侵了(👠)地(🎫)球(qiú )，尚未(wèi )适应环(🐫)境的(de )他们发(fā )现(💭)自(👵)己即将(jiāng )要面对(duì )的困难比学(xué(🔚) )习(🍪)如何(hé )划独木舟和(🧀)(hé )爬绳索(suǒ )更(♓)大(🍮)。原(💓)本熙熙攘(rǎng )攘的(🧒)营地如今只剩(shè(🌖)ng )他(🐹)们四个，孩子们(men )意外地被委以一把(💗)(bǎ(📻) )钥匙(shí )，这把钥匙(🕤)藏(👰)(cáng )有阻止外星(🧐)人(🚒)入(🥍)侵(qīn )的秘密。没有(yǒu )任何(hé )成年人(✔)或(👣)电子(zǐ )设备(bèi )的帮(🔽)助指引，他们(men )要(💔)做(🏒)的事情显而易(yì )见(😍)：团结一致、战(⛸)(zhà(🚓)n )胜恐惧(jù )、拯救世界(jiè )。这部(bù )宏(👻)大(✊)的动作(zuò )冒险片(pià(📔)n )由约瑟夫·麦(😿)克(🥈)金(🎲)(jīn )提·尼彻（《霹(😟)雳(lì )娇娃》）执导(🕠)。 I saw this at the London Film Festival in 1995 or 1996. The print had been lovingly restored from sections scattered around the world, including some from archives in Moscow. Somebody near me said "I'm really looking forward to this", which was understandable, since the director, as Michael Curtiz, later made some jolly swashbucklers and Casablanca, and the LFF had previously come up with several almost unknown silent masterpieces, including Jacques Feyder's Visage d'enfants. George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry. He befriends the Prince of Wales and leaves the army, becoming subsequently the best-known rake and decider of fashion in Europe. As his affairs flourish, so does his disdain for his benefactor, the Prince. Eventually Brummel falls into disfavor, and it is only Lady Margery who has any chance of helping him.