El príncipe gondolero


1931

Film Details

Also Known As
Honeymoon Hate
Release Date
Jan 1931
Premiere Information
Los Angeles opening: 10 Jul 1931
Production Company
Paramount Publix Corp.
Distribution Company
Paramount Publix Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Honeymoon Hate" by Alice Muriel Williamson in The Saturday Evening Post (9 Jul--16 Jul 1927).

Synopsis

In Venice, the irascible, bearded nobleman Dantarini lives with his handsome grandson, Prince Pietro Dantarini, in a palace. Over the entrance hangs a coat-of-arms bearing the motto, "By persuasion or by force," words that have been defended in war and love for generations. Elderly American hammer manufacturer John Grant and his beautiful, spoiled granddaughter Adela arrive in Venice determined to procure the plaque bearing the coat-of-arms as a trademark for their company. When Adela mistakes the singing Pietro for a gondolier, he pretends to be one and escorts her via the canals to his palace. Later, Adela and Pietro see Dantarini, who is outraged by Grant's audacity at naming a price for the shield, brandishing a war axe over Grant's head. Pietro rescues Grant by wisking him away in a gondola. That night, during a masked ball in the palace, Grant dons a costume that is a replica of Dantarini's and, with the help of Salustiano Green, Adela's suitor, tries to remove the plaque. To make Pietro jealous, Adela lures Salustiano into the torture chambers, and when he gets caught in an ancient set of manacles, she abandons him. Dantarini's relatives attack Grant, but in the scuffle, mistake Dantarini for Grant, and he escapes. Later Dantarini is enraged to learn that Pietro has married Adela, and he challenges Grant to a duel in which each will command a gondola. The first to "ungondola" the other will win. Scorning her new husband, Adela goes to Salustiano in the dungeon. Pietro follows, however, and releases him, then scares him off by sharpening a knife, after which he embraces Adela. The duel ends in a tie when both men are thrown into the canal, and all then embrace.

Film Details

Also Known As
Honeymoon Hate
Release Date
Jan 1931
Premiere Information
Los Angeles opening: 10 Jul 1931
Production Company
Paramount Publix Corp.
Distribution Company
Paramount Publix Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Honeymoon Hate" by Alice Muriel Williamson in The Saturday Evening Post (9 Jul--16 Jul 1927).

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The running time listed above was calculated from footage given in NYSA records. Some sources include María Calvo, Soldedad Jiménez, Rodolfo Hoyos, Renée Torres, Hipólito Mora, Marujita Pirrín and María Valdealde in the cast; however, their participation in the completed film has not been determined. In 1927, Paramount produced a silent version of Alice Muriel Williamson's story entitled Honeymoon Hate, directed by Luther Reed, and starring Florence Vidor and Tullio Carminati.