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Anna Boleyn (1920) is by far the most conventional of Ernst Lubitsch's early silent films and the most disappointing. It's a by-the-numbers historical tragic romance epic. Lubitsch was always at his best when he was being wild and crazy.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/anna-boleyn-1920.html

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Ernst Lubitsch's Eyes of the Mummy (1918) sounds like a horror film but it's a romantic melodrama although there's an ancient Egyptian tomb and a curse, and strange and inexplicable events. Pola Negri stars. Early Lubitsch is so wild and crazy.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/eyes-of-mummy-1918.html

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The Oyster Princess is a 1919 German Ernst Lubitsch film, described perfectly as a grotesque comedy. An American millionaire decides to buy a prince for his daughter. Good-natured fun with typical early Lubitsch crazy bizarre touches.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-oyster-princess-1919.html

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Ernst Lubitsch's The Doll (Die Puppe, 1919) is like a child's storybook come to life. No movie has ever revelled in its artificiality to this extent. And we have a girl playing a doll playing a girl. A gloriously insane fairy tale delight.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-doll-die-puppe-1919.html

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