Not really a horror film, though the title suggests that it might be, Die Augen der Mumie Ma (aka The Eyes of the Mummy) is really more of a melodrama, in which an artist (Harry Liedtke) rescues a young woman (Pola Negri) from servitude to a strange man (Emil Jannings) inside an Egyptian tomb, brings …
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A nightclub singer (Mae West) is pursued by several suitors, including rival crooks, but is herself attracted to a temperance worker (Cary Grant) with a secret. There’s a plot here, but the movie is really a star vehicle for West, who dominates the movie with her smoldering, saucy, and strong personality, even opposite folks such …
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