You Never Know Women
About You Never Know Women
Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is on her way to the theater when broker Eugene Foster pulls her clear of a falling girder. He will not let the rescue end there. He hires the troupe for a party at his house. Vera is stunned in a fall and wakes to Foster pleading with her. Norodin, her partner, who loves her, sees them embrace. For his underwater escape he tells her to stay away, and she is left thinking he has died. She admits the mistake to Foster. He tries to take hold of her. Norodin appears, pins Foster to the wall with thrown knives, and tells him to leave before the last blade.
Cast & crew
More about You Never Know Women
William A. Wellman directed. Ernest Vajda wrote the story and Benjamin Glazer the scenario. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky produced. Victor Milner photographed. Paramount released it on September 20, 1926. The length on record is six reels, 6,064 feet. Florence Vidor plays Vera, Lowell Sherman plays Foster, and Clive Brook plays Norodin.
Themes
Making
Wellman stages the romance inside a working magic act, so the last confrontation is a knife-throwing bit rather than a fistfight.
Look
Victor Milner shot the theater work and the house party, including the knife throws that pin Foster to the wall.
Preservation
The Library of Congress holds a 35mm print. Kino Classics restored it for a 2018 Blu-ray and DVD.
Notes
- El Brendel plays Toberchik, Roy Stewart plays Dimitri, and Joe Bonomo is the strong man.
- Eugene Pallette appears without a credit.
- The Library of Congress holds a 35mm print.
- Kino Classics issued a restoration on Blu-ray and DVD on October 23, 2018.
- The underwater act is the pivot: Norodin uses it to make Vera think he is dead.
Scenes
- Foster pulls Vera out from under a falling girder.
- Norodin's underwater stunt leaves her sure he has drowned.
- He returns and throws knives around Foster until the broker backs off.
Also available
- Kino Classics Blu-ray and DVD (October 23, 2018)
