The Wedding March

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Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1928
Country: USA
Runtime: 113
Rating: 4.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Sound: Mono, Silent
Taglines:

Will They Swing the Biggest Heist of Their Careers?

Writing by: Harry Carr - writer
Erich von Stroheim - writer

Produced by: Jesse L. Lasky - executive producer
Pat Powers - producer
Adolph Zukor - executive producer

Cast: Erich von Stroheim - Prince Nicki von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg
Fay Wray - Mitzi Schrammell
Matthew Betz - Schani Eberle
Zasu Pitts - Cecelia Schweisser
George Fawcett - Prince Ottokar von Wildeliebe Rauffenburg
Maude George - Princess Maria
George Nichols - Fortunat Schweisser
Dale Fuller - Katerina Schrammel
Hughie Mack - Schanis father
Cesare Gravina - Martin Schrammell
Sidney Bracey - Navratil

Music: Louis De Francesco J.S. Zamecnik
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Plot Outline: A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.
Plot: Prince Nikki, Lieutenant of the Guard in pre WWI Vienna, is flat broke, but the only advice he gets from his parents is either to shoot himself or to marry money. During the Chorpus Christi parade his horse accidentaly hurts poor Mitzi, the daughter of inn-keepers in a Viennese suburb, who is, according to the wishes of her parents, going to marry the butcher Schani. When Nikki visits her at the hospital, they fall in love, much to the dislike of her parents and Schani. Nikkis parents, meanwhile have arranged a prospective marriage with Cecilia, the limping daughter of a very rich non-aristocratic industrial. Due to the fact, that Nikkis father is a general in the Austrian-Hungarian Army, resitance is useless. When Mitzi, after hearing of it, is still refusing Schanis proposal, he vowes to shoot Nikki when he leaves the church.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Outtakes are shown during the closing credits

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: In the scene in the alley when Luke avoids the black pickup truck, he drops into the pickup bed and rolls off the back, which is open. Yet, when you see the truck pull out of the alley at the other end, there is back gate on the pickup bed, which would have prevented him rolling out.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Director Trademark: [Erich von Stroheim] [ambulance] Mitzi is carried away in an ambulance after she is injured at the cathedral ceremony.
Director Trademark: [Erich von Stroheim] [janitor] When Mitzi goes to the church to pray, a janitor is seen removing candle wax from the floor.
Shooting was stopped after nine months. Erich von Stroheim was ordered to make two films of the material: "The Wedding March" and its sequel The Honeymoon (1928). A third part, which von Stroheim had planned, was never realized. von Stroheim was able to restore his version of the first part in the 1950s at the Cinematheque Francaise.