Reviewer:
Carl Hinrichs from Fleetwood, PA United States
The original Edmond Greville film is a brilliant character study of the residents of a cosmopolitan hotel and a merciless indictment of French war mongers and of war.The subsequent desecration of this film years later by the French is beyond belief.First a ludicrous preface is attached to the beginning of the film.At the end of the film after Erich Von Stroheim's suicide an inane letter is shown which Von Stroheim's character would never possibly have written.Then immediately a narrator suddenly appears in the film spouting nonsense for the last ten minutes of the film and recounting things that occurred many years subsequent to the production of the film in 1938.The entire meaning of the film goes down the drain and is ironically replaced by an example of the simple minded propoganda of the people that Greville was indicting.Greville's original film is five star.The rest is enough to make you vomit.
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Menaces (1939)
September 6, 2014
Reviewer:
Kathleen Montgomery from Vista, CA United States
Perfect transaction. Very nice print of a rare title.
5 stars 
