In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a servant, hiding the truth from his unsympathetic father, while the son returns to his profligate ways. Robbed of her child first when he is a baby, and later when they are separated by the war, she suffers imprisonment, contempt, and shame in order to protect the child.

A lost film – a 4 minute fragment from the end of the first reel of this film was recovered in Dalian, China, and is now kept at Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Japan. It was first shown to the public in 2003.

The Case of Lena Smith (4m fragment) - 1929, DVDRip x264.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	4mn 18s
Size:	55.5 MiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	716x576 ~> 768x576
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 797 kb/s
Audio

https://nitro.download/view/9D6D689EFCC74B4/The_Case_of_Lena_Smith_(4m_fragment)_-_1929,_DVDRip_x264.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/df3c2a21ee4d884a775c49d1af8195a9/The_Case_of_Lena_Smith_(4m_fragment)_-_1929,_DVDRip_x264.mkv

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:English intertitles, French, German

The post Josef von Sternberg – The Case of Lena Smith [Fragment] (1929) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood’s Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various passengers of a European express train. On this particular run, the train is a veritable hotbed of intrigue, with crooks and blackmail victims seemingly in every coach. Among the naughty and nice characters are continental favorites Conrad Veidt, Cedric Hardwicke and Finlay Currie, as well as American silent film star Esther Ralston. Rome Express enabled director Walter Forde to graduate from inexpensive regional comedies to prestige British productions. The film was also an obvious inspiration for such later intrigue-on-the-rails epics as The Lady Vanishes (38) and Night Train (39). Rome Express was remade in 1948 as Sleeping Car to Trieste.

2.28GB | 1 h 30 min | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/FD7939158B014CB/Rome.Express.1932.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Walter Forde – Rome Express (1932) first appeared on Cinema of the World.