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CARL LAEMMLE
offers
BLIND
HUSBANDS
COPYRIGHTED BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES CORPORATION
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From the book
THE PINNACLE
by
Erich Stroheim
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Adaptation and scenario by
the author
Directed by
ERICH STROHEIM
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Edited by
FRANK LAWRENCE
and
ELEANOR FRIED
Photographed by Ben F. Renolds
Titles by Lilian Ducey
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Dedicated to
Sepp Innerkofler, world-famous mountain guide - who risked his life again and again to save others, finally sacrificing it on the Monte Cristallo. Let us re- member him through years for his pure and mighty heart.
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CAST
The Husband ............. Sam DeGrasse The Wife ................ Francellia Billington The Other Man ........... Erich von Stroheim The Mountain Guide ...... T. H. Gibson-Gowland The "Vamp" Waitress ..... Fay Holderness A Village Blossom ....... Ruby Kendrick Honeymooners ............ Valerie Germonprez
Jack Perrin
The Village Physician ... Richard Cummings The Village Priest ...... Louis Fitzroy Three Men from "Home" ... William Duvalle
Jack Mathes
Percy Challenger
6 One of the most frequent reasons
for divorce is "alienation of
affection" ...And the reason within the reason is the fact that "the other man" steps in with his sincere (or insincere) attentions just when the husband in his self- complacency forgets the wooing wiles of his prenuptial days... Guilty! says the world condemning "the other man" ...But what of the husband?
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Beneath the blue sky ...
as old ... as the world
itself ... the Monte
Cristallo ....
8 ... and set like a gem ... almost choked by the near- ness of the Alpine magni- tude lies the little village of Cortina ...
Note Cortina D'Ampezzo, on the Austro- Italian Frontier - the Mecca of American tourists.
9 ... the Seventh Day ...
10 ... and a people ... simple
and faithful ...
11 The wine room of the
Hotel Croce Bianca.
12 A son of the eternal
mountains ... strong
and mute ... as they ... Silent Sepp ...
13 "To the end of my days -
I remain your friend -"
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Into the solitude of the immortal mountains - -
where man is little and God is great - - comes Doctor Robert Armstrong, America's famous surgeon, seeking rest and relaxation.
15 Margaret, his wife ....
16 Lieutenant Von Steuben,
an Austrian cavalry
officer, with a keen apprecia- tion of three things: Wine, WOMEN, Song.
17 "Robert - what time
is it?"
18 The next morning ...
19 "Oh Robert -- I forgot
my sweater!"
20 "Yes, - I saw it - lying
on the bed -"
21 "Did you find it?"
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That night was the Festival of the Trans-
figuration ...
23 Three men from home!
24 Honeymooners.
25 Lover's Lane.
26 "- this wonderful night
is ours - - yours and mine!"
27 "Even the good old moon
seems to give us her blessing."
28 "- I love you."
29 "You'll never neglect
me like that?"
30 "Why do you think of
him - he does not think of you?"
31 "This wonderful night is
ours - yours and mine -"
32 "- and even the good
old moon seems to give us her blessing -"
33 "- I love you."
34 "Well, Doc, tomorrow we
climb the Monte Cristallo. And from the north side too - what do you know about that?"
35 "But why from the north
side? No one ever made it before - -"
36 "That's just the reason!"
37 "Don't try to break records.
The mountains have no patience with such worldly motives - they'll call you to account - -"
38 "What do you think,
Sepp?"
39 "It is bad for man to
believe he is more almighty than mountains, I know."
40 "To me mountains are life-
less rocks. My pleasure has always been to master them."
41 "We'll be back tomorrow
night - keep your eyes peeled for us!"
42 Daybreak.
43 .... and as the morning
advanced ....
44 "Robert, look here - isn't
this wonderful?"
45 "Two hundred and fifty
kronen - but it's two hundred years old."
46 "I'm sorry, Margaret, but Dr.
Brunner has a very urgent case - a little mother needs us - I have to go."
47 "Lieutenant, please look
after my wife until I return -"
48 "- you were created for
nothing else but love - love with its longings - its ecstasies."
49 "You must not talk that
way. I am married - and I love my husband."
50 "Husband? Love? How
can one love alone?"
51 .... In the rose glow of
an Alpine sunset ....
52 "What I foresaw has
happened - - I am going up to bring them help."
53 "Dr. Brunner is detained in
the country - I am the only physician here - - I must go."
54 "It's a long way. We won't
return before tomorrow night."
55 Ready to bring aid to
those who had reck-
lessly challenged the spirit of the mountains ...
56 ... Morning ... and some- where a lovebird was calling ... calling to its mate ....
57 "Suppose my husband were
to come now - !"
58 "Your husband does not
think of you - he climbs the mountains - -"
59 "- I promise. But give
me time! Please - - please - - !"
60 ... I call the living ... I mourn the dead ...
61 "If you feel strong enough
- we'll leave for Rome tomorrow."
62 "- No! Not until you've
had your climb to the Pinnacle."
63 "Then - if you don't mind -
I'll go tomorrow."
64 "Take me with you as far
as the Pinnacle hut - and I'll wait for you until you come back - -"
65 "Maybe Lieutenant Von
Steuben would like to join our party?"
66 "Perhaps - I've heard him
say that he has climbed most of the mountains of the world."
67 ... Cortina had been left far behind ... and into the cloud- mist where voices grew fog muffled to an echo ... went the party ....
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Am 16 September
1879 wurde Franz Huber von Alois Bauer während einer geheimer Zusammenkunft mit der Ehefrau des letzteren überrascht und im darauf folgenden Zweikampfe von diesem Felsen herunter geworfen.
Wanderer bete ein Vater Unser für die arme Seele!
[dissolves to:]
On Sept. 16th 1879 Franz Huber was caught by Alexis Bauer holding a secret meeting with the latters wife. In the ensuing fight the former was thrown by the betrayed husband down this precipice and killed.
Passerby pray for the condemned soul of the poor sinner
69 ... and just below the timber- line, where all the earth scents mingle ... the Pinnacle hut ....
70 "Separate rooms - if we can
have them? I leave at sun- rise for the Pinnacle and do not want to disturb my wife."
71 ... night and drifting fog ... and a mountain owl
weirdly calling ...
calling ...
72 "- When all is quiet -
remember - -"
73 The Pinnacle, one of three
sister peaks in the Dolo-
mites - not the highest but famed for its inaccessibility. Buried at its foot lie the victims of many an intrepid expedition.
74 Lifting itself to immortal
Heaven - aloof ... for-
bidding ... and still, still as everlasting death ...
75 A platoon of Austrian
Alpine soldiers on a
mapping expedition.
76 "Do you think they
are in danger?"
77 "Not if they left their
worldly troubles behind."
78 The Pinnacle - at the very
feet of God - where man
forgets his baser self and the soul beneath his mind grows clean.
79 "Sepp! Sepp!"
80 "Something terrible is
happening - I know it - I feel it. Sepp, I must go to them."
81 "Did my wife write this
letter to you?"
82 "Was that letter written
by my wife?"
83 "Yes - what of it?"
84 "What can one man do
alone? There is only one way up - but many ways down - -"
85 "I am going to give you one
chance - if you speak the truth - and I shall know it - I will not harm you. But if you lie - and I shall know that too - down you go - -"
86 "Did she promise to go
away with you?"
87 "You will not hurt me if
I speak the - truth?"
88 "She did!"
89 "No law of God or man
can make me take you down again!"
90 "I lied because I was
afraid you wouldn't believe the truth."
91 "I didn't do it - I tell you!
I swear I didn't!"
92 "Doctor Armstrong -"
93 "I've found him -"
94 "He is still up there -
save - him - -"
95 ... the spirit of the mountain had spoken ... and again everything was still...still as everlasting death ...
96 - Until we meet again.
97 "Be good to her -"
98 "Little I know of the
world - but one thing she needs: Love."
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