
Elderly Spanish nobleman Don Julian is happily married to Teodora, a beautiful young girl, when his protégé, young poet Ernest, comes to live with them. Although Teodora entertains only motherly feelings towards Ernesto, vicious gossips spread false rumors of a love affair between the two young people.


Candle smoke and orange blossom: the first two sensory ghosts that greet us in The World and His Wife, a 1920 silent whose very title drips with bitter irony. The film, adapted from Nobel laureate José Echegaray’s play El gran galeoto, is less a museum relic than a live coal; watch it flicker long enough and you’ll f...

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" Candle smoke and orange blossom: the first two sensory ghosts that greet us in The World and His Wife, a 1920 silent whose very title drips with bitter irony. The film, adapted from Nobel laureate José Echegaray’s play El gran galeoto, is less a museum relic than a live coal; watch it flicker long enough and you’ll feel the scorch of gossip that still singles out women who dare to occupy public space. Director Pedro de Cordoba—also essaying the role of the poisonous Don Alvarez—understands th..."
Frances Marion, Charles Frederic Nirdlinger, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
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