The Temptress
The Temptress

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In a masked ball in Paris, Manuel Robledo, a young Argentinian architect, meets Elena, the Marquess of Torre Blanca. Later, the young woman is rightly accused of causing the misfortune and loss of wealth of Fontenoy, a man who fell for her charms. To escape social criticism, the Marquis of Torre Blanca transfers his residence to Argentina. There, Elena again meets Manuel, when he is building a river's dam. Manos Duras, a thug, harasses Elena, and when Manuel intervenes, he ch... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Temptress:

Greta Garbo
Antonio Moreno
Marc McDermott
Lionel Barrymore
Armand Kaliz
Roy D'Arcy

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In a masked ball in Paris, Manuel Robledo, a young Argentinian architect, meets Elena, the Marquess of Torre Blanca. Later, the young woman is rightly accused of causing the misfortune and loss of wealth of Fontenoy, a man who fell for her charms. To escape social criticism, the Marquis of Torre Blanca transfers his residence to Argentina. There, Elena again meets Manuel, when he is building a river's dam. Manos Duras, a thug, harasses Elena, and when Manuel intervenes, he challenges him to a whip duel. The duel is long and vicious, both men suffering many cuts on their faces and naked chests, but in the end, the thug is vanquished and humiliated. Manos Duras sets up an ambush to murder Manuel, but the Marquis of Torre Blanca is killed instead. Now, there are only two men in love for Elena, the eternal temptress.

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New York Times - 8/10 by Mordaunt HallIn many respects this picture is a distinguished piece of work, wherein Fred Niblo, the director, keeps the audience on the qui vive.
User Review - 10/10 by josh cThis silent drama provides an interesting role for Greta Garbo, who was still rather young at the time. It also has some good set pieces created by directors Fred Niblo and/or Mauritz Stiller, which liven up the story considerably. The supporting cast also features a couple of good performances, and all of the strengths help to make up for a rather downbeat story. As "The Temptress", Garbo is certainly believable as a woman who attracts the attention of every man around. What makes it more interesting than most such scenarios is that both the script and Garbo's performance leave some ambiguity about what the character is really like inside, and in any case she has a lot more depth than the male characters. The best supporting performances come from Lionel Barrymore and Marc McDermott, as two of the many men who desire her. Several sequences are filmed very nicely. Fontenoy's dinner party is an effective display of the hollow lifestyle it depicts, and there is some real danger and menace in the fight scene between Robledo and Manos Duras. The pace overall is uneven, and it does have some slow stretches that add unnecessarily to the running time, but the good parts make up for this. At least one DVD version includes a variant ending that changes the tone considerably, so there must have been some uncertainty about how it should close. Garbo's talent and screen presence are both easy to see, and in later features her characters would give her better opportunities to show them. She does a very good job here, and makes her character much more interesting than it would have been with a lesser performer in the role. Overall, it's a movie worth seeing for silent film fans, with some real highlights that make up for the occasional shortcomings
User Review - 10/10 by Gina ZIt was the first silent film that I saw. Even though I saw it from the middle, it caught my attention.
User Review - 8/10 by Nick EI have been curious about Garbo films, and I have started my adventure in her films with 'The Temptress'. This was her second film and she was not an established star yet...Here are some points I noticed: - I found that the soft focus style during the first scenes, especially when Elena (Garbo) takes her mask off (very excited during this scene, I must add), has a similarity to the look a singer named Alison Goldfrapp had during the release of her first album, Felt Mountain. My partner and I noticed this, and thought it would be interesting to point out. The blurring of background objects would help the viewer direct their view to the actors. - The score was very adequate in enhancing the drama or lightness of the various scenes. - The fades in between scenes of Paris and Argentina were very interesting. I found it to be creative, especially because there were no optical printers at the time this movie was filmed. The fades had to be done within the camera,backing up on filmed footage to create the fades. Must have been a very intricate process as to not mess up the footage already shot. - I enjoyed the 'foot fetish' scene during the tracking shot that was done over and under the banquet table in the scenes showing Fontenay's dinner party. - Another scene that caught my eye was the distorted mirror that Elena looked into while her stay in Argentina. I am a fan of distortion and this shot was well done. Overall this was a great film to spark my interest in Garbo's films.
User Review - 8/10 by Rachel NA masked ball in Paris. A nameless man asks a woman to marry him. She refuses - she doesn't love him. She leaves the ballroom for the courtyard and meets Manuel Robledo. They fall in love under the moonlight. They part without him having learned her name, but with her promise that she is unattached and that they will meet again tomorrow.... The next day, Robledo, an Argentinian architect, arrives at the home of the Marquis de Torre Bianca to conduct some business. "You must meet the Marquess," says the Marquis. And down the stairs comes Elena, the woman Robledo met at the masked ball.... Later that night, the Marquis and Marquess attend a dinner party where the host denounces the mistress whose extravagances have cost him his fortune...and then promptly commits suicide. The mistress is, of course, Elena. And that summarizes the first 23 minutes of [i]The Temptress[/i]. Where else but in a silent picture from 1926 could an unfaithful Marquess meet an Argentinian architect at a maked ball in Paris? And who else could play that Marquess but Greta Garbo? Elena eventually follows Robledo (Antonio Moreno) to the Argentine where she wreaks just as much havoc with them men (including Lionel Barrymore) as she did in Paris. The Marquis follows her to the Argentine and is shot and killed, another man (Barrymore) mortally stabs his best friend and two more actually get into a whip-fight because of her. Garbo is terrific throughout. It's almost impossible to feel any kind of sympathy for Elena, but I got the feeling that sympathy isn't important to her. Nothing is important to Elena except love. Not sex, love. Love. [b][i][u]LOVE!!![/u][/i][/b] She must have a man to love and she must have a man to love her to the exclusion of everyone and everything else. Therefore, in her mind, she cannot be held accountable for the men who fall in love with her and destroy themselves and each other. And therein lies the Garbo Mystique. Taken at face value, [i]The Temptress[/i] is a ridiculous melodrama. But the film didn't seem silly until I tried to summarize it above. That's because Garbo believes in Elena. So we believe in Elena. It's really as simple as that. That sort of screen power is hard to describe unless you've seen one of Garbo's films. My first experience with Garbo was [i]Grand Hotel[/i], but even that glorious film doesn't fully capture her Mystique. Even though she received top billing, [i]Grand Hotel[/i] was ensemble effort heavy on MGM's firmament of stars (John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, La Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone also star) and Garbo's ballerina Grusinskaya is just another part of the (extraordinary) cast. I didn't fully appreciate her mystique until I saw a second film, 1929's silent [i]The Single Standard[/i]. And then I got it. I don't remember anything about it except Garbo. I was utterly enraptured by her every move, her every word - and those words were only on title cards. I've read that the only way to truly understand the Garbo Mystique is to see her on the big screen, something I've yet to experience.* But back to the film at hand. Director Fred Niblo keeps everything moving along nicely, handling such disparate plot elements as the opening ball in Paris, the whip fight and the damn burst (that happens later) with skill and aplomb. And it certainly didn't hurt matters to have James Basevi & Cedirc Gibbons and Tony Gaudio and William Daniels on hand for the art direction and cinematography, respectively. [i]The Temptress[/i] is currently available on the DVD collection, TCM Archives - The Garbo Silents, with [i]Flesh and the Devil[/i] and [i]The Mysterious Lady[/i]. The digital transfer is outstanding - the movie is close to 80 years old and the print is pristine. it's also been outfitted with a damn good new score by Michael Picton, winner of the Turner Classic Movies' 2005 Young Film Composers Competition. The Garbo Silents itself is part of the Greta Garbo Signature Collection, which (finally) arrived in my mailbox on Friday.** I've decided to watch all of the films in chronilogical order for a couple of reasons. I'd kind of like to see how she develops as an actress and an icon over the years. I've also decided to review all of them, in the interest of developing some scholarly-time movie-kritiquin' skills in case I ever actually make it to grad school. Those are legitimate enough reasons, but I'm not going to pretend I'm not a very idiosynchratic kind of guy and would probably count OCD among my disorders, if the Bipolar II wasn't so distracting. [size=1]*I hate you two.[/size] [size=1]**The Garbo Celebration Dance was really a sight to behold.[/size]
User Review - 8/10 by Katie RGarbo created such an interesting, yet despicable character in this one.
User Review - 8/10 by Katie LAnother great performance from Greta Garbo.
User Review - 8/10 by Veronique K"the temptress" is greta garbo's first american movie which sets off her iconic image of silent vamp in united states. garbo's insoucient manners have some tint of ethereal melancholy which fundamentalizes her tragic diva status, anchored by a thick aura of fatalistic helplessness as lovers're always doomed to aching love without eternality in her screen romances. garbo plays the tempress who is a dame philandered by her spineless husband to pay debts. then she falls heads over heels in love with a handsome stranger in a flowery garden under the silvery stars. then next day her lover discovers her despicable infidelity as the traded woman, so he departs with loathing hatred. but destiny leads her again to his side and she still captivates everyman under her spell with her striking beauty. however, wherever she arrives, fatal ruin befalls upon men as helen could wreck troy despite her eyes only cast upon one man who despises her. "the temptress" is a great exemplification of the intimidating empowerment of feminine allure as men fear women's charm since bible depicts dalliah betrays samson, also as adolescent boys scare to be devoured by the virgina vendetta. (pardon.) woman descends as the fault-blamer who catalysizes doom with misogynistic distrust. somehow female remains as the reluctant puppet of karma with irrevalent detachment as men bleeds to vie for her one sensuous regard. inevitably the female's got to commit an extrene masochistic deed to redeem herself and the sacredness of her love to the man as he collapses under her skirt. garbo shall be the otherworldly incarnation of femme fatale, and her sultriness is never so evident as in "the tempress", clouded with a mythical fable-alike atmosphere as the backset is filled with expressionistic sceneric art. in her state of "silentness", garbo's sensuality is shredded with intense enigma as if you're observing a mythological tale with ideological archetypes. the essence of woman's genuine fairness is as fragile as flower, you wanna pluck the blossom then after inhaling its fragrance, you secretly wish to tramp it beneath your feet, so transiet so vulnerable. the pinnacle of tragic aesthetism could only be accomplished as the female protagonost selects the path of self-ruin to gratify your appetite for destruction. melodramaticity, indeed. as wordsworth remarks that poetry is the overflown state of emotions as one smolders in his maxium of sentimentality. (correct me if i quote it wrong). the carthesis is enlightened as the audience escalates into the pitch of drastic plot twists. that was cinema or entertainment in old days, a form of extinguished art.
User Review - 6/10 by darryl cafter debuting in 1925's the torrent, garbo was starred in the temptress, a seamy story of a woman who artlessly destroys the lives of the men that love her.
User Review - 6/10 by Jason MWhile sort of all over the place, The Temptress is undeniably entertaining. The film moves from beat to beat with purpose and without lagging terribly long, leading to an enjoyable viewing experience. Where the film gets into a bit of trouble is with its characters. Very seldom are their motivations ever really explained. Why do Elena and Robledo fall in love in the first place? Why did Elena marry Marquis de Torre Bianca if she never loved him? Who is Manos Duras and why doesn't he want the dam built? These questions are all presented in the film and never really answered, thus leaving many of the characters feeling more hollow internally than they should given their complex external actions. The film is also a bit troubling from a feminist stand-point but welcome to the 1920s. In the end, The Temptress, while somewhat hollow, is still an entertaining film.

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