Erich von Stroheim, dubbed "The Man You Love to Hate," gave 1920s audiences even more reasons to hate him as a lecherous phony count in FOOLISH WIVES, which he also wrote and directed in typically lavish style.
A con man posing as a Russian count named Sergius Karamzin (Erich von Stroheim) rents a villa in Monte Carlo along with his two "cousins," Princess Olga Petschnikoff (Maude George) and Princess Vera Petschnikoff (Mae Busch), to scam rich tourists. When wealthy American diplomat Andrew J. Hughes
(Rudolph Christians) and his wife Helen (Miss Du Pont) arrive in Monaco, Karamzin sets out to seduce Helen and then blackmail her into paying him to not tell her h...
Released:
1922
Rated:
NR
Length:
107 mins