Fruit 1921
Rare old film from the amazing David S. Bradley Film Collection at Indiana University.
A beautiful shopgirl with a worthless layabout husband gets to live out her Cinderella fantasy when a rich acquaintance needs some eye candy to trick a male visitor into staying in town. Essentially she becomes an escort - but with clothes like these, who cares about dignity? (Cecil B. DeMille, whatever his other flaws as a director, is always on point with his costume game.) The problem comes when she and the mark really do fall (duh) for each other, and her husband, eager to get rich quick to impress her, turns to crime.
Apparently DeMille's remake of his own 1915 The Golden Chance, Forbidden Fruit is in its leering wish-fulfillment narrative a spiritual successor to Don't Change Your Husband and Why Change Your Wife?, but also anticipates his later biblical spectacles in a shallow way (the Adam and Eve motif is completely dropped in favor of Cinderella).
More than any of DeMille's films, though, Forbidden Fruit reminded me of the big-budget absurdity of his early sound picture Madame Satan. As in that film, he tries to combine sex comedy, melodrama, and spectacle, with weird results. There are some very cool technical gimmicks, as you can see from the screenshots below. Much of the film is tinted and there are gorgeous color intertitles. One really crazy trick is the moving image embedded in the lower corner of a couple of title screens.
Fun fact: Alfred Hitchcock once (around the time of his Selznick contract) named this as one of his top ten favorite movies!
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Melodrama USA
Melodrama USA
Rare old film from the amazing David S. Bradley Film Collection at Indiana University.
A beautiful shopgirl with a worthless layabout husband gets to live out her Cinderella fantasy when a rich acquaintance needs some eye candy to trick a male visitor into staying in town. Essentially she becomes an escort - but with clothes like these, who cares about dignity? (Cecil B. DeMille, whatever his other flaws as a director, is always on point with his costume game.) The problem comes when she and the mark really do fall (duh) for each other, and her husband, eager to get rich quick to impress her, turns to crime.
Apparently DeMille's remake of his own 1915 The Golden Chance, Forbidden Fruit is in its leering wish-fulfillment narrative a spiritual successor to Don't Change Your Husband and Why Change Your Wife?, but also anticipates his later biblical spectacles in a shallow way (the Adam and Eve motif is completely dropped in favor of Cinderella).
More than any of DeMille's films, though, Forbidden Fruit reminded me of the big-budget absurdity of his early sound picture Madame Satan. As in that film, he tries to combine sex comedy, melodrama, and spectacle, with weird results. There are some very cool technical gimmicks, as you can see from the screenshots below. Much of the film is tinted and there are gorgeous color intertitles. One really crazy trick is the moving image embedded in the lower corner of a couple of title screens.
Fun fact: Alfred Hitchcock once (around the time of his Selznick contract) named this as one of his top ten favorite movies!
IMDB
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