Queen Kelly (1929)
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Thu 22 Oct ’26
- Doors open
- 20:20
- Start
- 20:45
- Approx. end
- 22:26
Everyman Cinema, BA1 1SS
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Director: Erich von Stroheim
Starring Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen.
“In the long history of Hollywood excess, there is no tale as torrid as that of Queen Kelly” – Pamela Hutchinson
Experience the beauty and controversy of Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly, a rags to riches story, finally completed to the director’s original vision.
Gloria Swanson stars as convent girl Kitty Kelly, an enchanting but feisty young woman who quickly catches the eye of the unruly Prince Wolfram (Walter Byron). The pair connect and romance stirs, much to the anger of the prince’s fiancé, the sex-crazed and evil Queen Regina V of Kronberg (Seena Owen). Forcibly separated, Kelly travels to East Africa to see her aunt at a brothel, unaware of the illicit business she runs.
Shockingly expensive to make and yet never completed, Queen Kelly is a scandalous and extravagant masterpiece that goes down in history as a production disaster. Originally opposed by Swanson for its distasteful nature, this is a chance to see a legendary underseen silent film on the big screen.
Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour.
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An outlandish saga of illicit love in sordid surroundings.
