After emigrating to America, several European nobles find themselves living and working as common laborers. They join together one night a week to maintain the Continental style to which they were once accustomed.


A chandelier made of broken beer bottles still throws prisms across the loft floor; that single image is the whole movie in miniature—opulence salvaged from trash, nostalgia soldered with irony. George Barr McCutcheon’s story and Walter Woods’s scenario congeal into a fever chart of class vertigo: European blue bloods...


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" A chandelier made of broken beer bottles still throws prisms across the loft floor; that single image is the whole movie in miniature—opulence salvaged from trash, nostalgia soldered with irony. George Barr McCutcheon’s story and Walter Woods’s scenario congeal into a fever chart of class vertigo: European blue bloods flattened by Fordist America yet addicted to the perfume of their own mythology. Director Warwick—himself a fallen matinee idol—shoots faces like cracked Sèvres: every close-up a ..."
George Barr McCutcheon, Walter Woods
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