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Temptations of a Great City
Temptations of a Great City
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TEMPTATIONS OF A GREAT CITY

Ved Fængslets Port

Directed by August Blom
Denmark, 1911
Silent, Drama, Short

Synopsis

The morally weak son of a rich widow gets into trouble because of his debts to a money lender, whose daughter becomes his fiancée. The drama reaches its climax in the famous “mirror-scene”, where the desperate son sneaks into his mother’s living room at night to steal her money.

Synopsis

The morally weak son of a rich widow gets into trouble because of his debts to a money lender, whose daughter becomes his fiancée. The drama reaches its climax in the famous “mirror-scene”, where the desperate son sneaks into his mother’s living room at night to steal her money.