The Great Flamarion (1945)
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A jealous vaudeville sharpshooter is talked by his stage assistant into killing her husband mid-act, only to discover — once she moves on to a younger partner — that he was never more than a means to that end.
Erich von Stroheim, the once-imperious director of Greed reduced by the 1940s to character roles, plays Flamarion’s self-deception with the same wounded dignity he would bring to Sunset Boulevard five years later.
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