Foolish Wives is a 1922 American silent drama written, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim as a con man posing as Russian nobility who preys on wealthy women in Monte Carlo. The production was noted at the time for its then-extraordinary cost, including an elaborate full-scale reconstruction of Monte Carlo built on the studio lot, and for von Stroheim's insistence on a runtime far longer than the studio was willing to release, leading to significant cuts against his wishes. Foolish Wives is widely regarded as an early landmark of directorial extravagance in American silent cinema and a forerunner of the studio-versus-director conflicts that would later mark von Stroheim's Greed.
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Foolish Wives is a 1922 American erotic silent drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures under their Super-Jewel banner and written and directed by Erich von Stroheim.
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Foolish Wives is a 1922 American silent drama written, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim as a con man posing as Russian nobility who preys on wealthy women in Monte Carlo.
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