Monday, May 22, 2006

Grand Hotel (1932)


Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end...

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*Tagline? 沒這種東西~
*這是我看過最古老的電影耶,1932年(第五屆Academy)的最佳影片哦~
*Greta Garbo: 瑞典人(斯德哥爾摩出生),雖然沒有做過最佳女主角,但是還是高居No. 5,在1930年以Anna Christie和Romance這兩部電影同時入圍Best Actress in a Leading Role;我想,要看到這麼古老的,有蠻大的困難~
*Joan Crawford: 作品近百部...Mildred Pierce (1945)為她贏得第一座也是唯一一座的小金人;排名是No. 10~
*No. 30 - I want to be alone.
*Dr. Otternschlag: Grand Hotel... always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.
*飾演Baron Felix von Geigern的John Barrymore是Drew Barrymore的阿公~

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