James B. Fagan

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.

That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.

John ha llevado una vida solitaria durante treinta años desde la muerte de Moonyeen Clara. Pero ahora Owens, un amigo cercano, insiste en que cuide de su sobrina, Kathleen, huérfana desde que sus padres se perdieron en el mar. Los años pasan, y la niña Kathleen se convierte en una bella joven que es la viva imagen de Moonyeen... Lujosa producción del famoso productor Irving Thalberg, en persona, para mayor gloria de su esposa, la ya en aquel momento "star" del estudio Norma Shearer.

A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a recycling of footage from the silent version of The Ten Commandments.

British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the sake of the Regiment. He goes so far as to resign from his commission and returns to India as a civilian.

Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.

Anthony Hamilton hace saltar la banca de Montecarlo y se va, en compañía de su buen amigo, a visitar Europa antes de regresar a su país natal, Estados Unidos. Al llegar cerca de la pequeña nación de Bovinia, se encuentra con un grupo de bolcheviques enloquecidos que tratan de liquidar el régimen de su rey y que, para ello, pretenden hacerse con los millones ganados por Hamilton en la ruleta. (filmaffinit)

Bella Donna se enamora del exótico Baroudi y planea envenenar a su marido.

The husband and his wife live alone in the mountains, where he is working out a claim. A stranger from a distant mine is injured in the vicinity. The husband nurses him back to health. During his convalescence the stranger persuades the wife to elope with him.