Gloria Swanson stars in QUEEN KELLY as a convent girl who falls in love with a prince, goes to Africa and runs a brothel, then becomes queen of Germany, in Erich von Stroheim's legendary unfinished silent film that was unreleased in the US until it was restored in 1985.
In Imperial Germany, the mad Queen Regina V (Seena Owen) is engaged to her playboy cousin, Prince Wolfram (Walter Byron), who doesn't love her. After a night of drunken carousing, Wolfram is punished by Regina, who forces him to practice extra drills with his squadron in the hot sun. During the
drills, Wolfram encounters a group of Catholic orphan girls from a nearby convent. When the girls curts...
Released:
1928
Rated:
NR
Length:
98 mins