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The Golden Bed
UNITED STATES · 1925

The Golden Bed

Cecil B. DeMille
femme fatale marriage for money social climbing family inheritance moral corruption
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Synopsis

Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah. She bleeds him dry, until he goes to prison.

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