I just got the it . Even though the dates for the American released version wasn't mentioned. It was released in the U. S. A. After the American remake. United artist must of saw the movie first before it was remade. Why didn't this encourage them to shoot it in full Technicolor? George Sanders wasn't big enough. So only a few minutes of color was used in a painting seen. The first version was made under Goebbels and it had a happy ending .The remake was made under the production code and George Sanders character had to be punished. the first version Clotilda was played by Angela Landsbury being a younger character. The first version is played by an older Hilde Hidebrand. I don't remember but i don't think that the remake had the same song neither.Willi Forst both directs and stars as George Duroy.After he seduces Rachel the maid, who aspires to be a singer in which he met on amateur night at a cabaret played by Lizzie Waldmuller. He seduces her boss ,Clotile.The wife of journalist Forestier, both played by Olga Tschechowa and Will Dom. Till he get's ahead at the news paper and after seducing the daughter of the prime minister,I think. Ilse Werners character helps him to take her daddy's place as a prime minister. I'm getting a suspicion ,although I might be wrong, that the book George Duroy gets punished any way. Could this version of George Duroy was suppose to be Adolph Hilter in disguised? Was this the propaganda? May be not. It was nerveless a good film classic of Ilse Werners
Review of Bel Ami
