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Wildcat, The (1921) -- (Movie Clip) Not Far From Piffkaneiro Something like the fantastical opening imagined by Ernst Lubitsch (the original inter-titles are lost), with the fictional location and the immediate broad spoof of the popular matte-iris technique, Viktor Janson introduced as commander of a plenty-absurd looking fortress, from The Wildcat, or Die Bergkatze, 1921, starring Pola Negri.

Wildcat, The (1921) -- (Movie Clip) I Did What I Could Introduction of the heartthrob officer Alexis (Paul Heidemann) being banished to a remote frontier outpost in Ernst Lubitsch’s fantasy winterland, loaded with more matte technique and design gags, still before the introduction of Pola Negri, the title character, in the outlandish German silent comedy The Wildcat, 1921.

Wildcat, The (1921) -- (Movie Clip) She Beat Me! Just introduced as the leader of an outlaw band on some fictional Alpine frontier, Wilhelm Diegelmann is being set upon by his own charges so he summons his daughter Rischka (Pola Negri, the title character, her first scene) who cracks heads as needed then notices Paul Heidemann as Alexis, the just-transferred army Lothario, on the move, in Ernst Lubitsch’s The Wildcat, 1921.

Wildcat, The (1921) -- (Movie Clip) You Would Have Split Them Thinking she’s made a killing by robbing a dandified military officer of his clothes, Rischka (Pola Negri), daughter of the Alpine bandit chieftan, is baffled by seeing her first photograph, then smitten, then berated by her dad (Wilhelm Diegelmann) for not taking his underwear as well, in Ernst Lubitsch’s absurd comedy The Wildcat, 1921.

Terminal Island (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Break Her In Ena Hartman is Carmen, political radical and the new convicted murderer on the prison island, discovering the settlement where Bobby (Sean Kenney) and Monk (Roger E. Moseley) hold sway, Barbara Leigh, Marta Kristen, Phyllis Davis among the enslaved females, in Terminal Island, 1973.

Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) We Must Be In A Good Situation Romping Jane Austen comedy in director Roger Michell’s adaptation of her last novel, heroine Anne (Amanda Root), with the family into-which her sister Mary (Sophie Thompson) married, Simon Russell Beale, Roger Hammond, Judy Cornwall, Victoria Hamilton and Emma Roberts contributing, in Persuasion, 1995.

Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) Not Very Gallant On the evening their son was badly injured, sister Anne (Amanda Root) was baby-sitter for his socially ambitious parents (Sophie Thompson, Simon Russell Beale), unwilling to miss dinner with Captain Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds), and unaware of her own history with him, when he appears the next day, in Persuasion, 1995.

Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) Stick Always To Your Purpose Complex family tensions crossing Jane Austen’s English countryside, the Elliot sisters, Louisa, Henrietta, married Mary and stoical Anne (Emma Roberts, Victoria Hamilton, Sophie Thompson, Amanda Root) with eligible Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds) and harried Charles (Simon Russel Beale), in Persuasion, 1995.

Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) I Care Little For These Romantics Unmarried Anne (Amanda Root) preparing her impoverished family’s estate for rental, with friend Lady Russell (Susan Fleetwood), who persuaded her years before not to marry a young officer related to the family that’s moving-in, in Persuasion, 1995, from the Jane Austen novel.

Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Retrench Director Roger Michell cuts between events opening his adaptation of Jane Austen’s last novel, the end of the Napoleonic wars for Admiral Croft (John Woodvine), and Sir Walter (Corin Redgrave) being advised (finally by Susan Fleetwood as Lady Russell) to rent out his estate, in Persuasion, 1995.

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