Foolish Wives (1922)

Directors

Erich von Stroheim

Cast

Rudolf Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George, Mae Busch, Erich von Stroheim

The story

A man adopts the name and title of Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin to seduce rich women and extort money from them. He sets up shop in Monte Carlo, and we learn that his partners in crime (and possible lovers) are his cousins: "Princess" Vera Petchnikoff and "Her Highness" Olga Petchnikoff. Count Karamzin begins his latest scam on the unworldly wife of an American envoy, Helen Hughes, even though her husband is nearby.

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