Thursday, January 02, 2025

At WEJB/NSU, we don’t just do murder; we do prostitution, too! See Louise Brooks, in her breakout role (before Pandora’s Box!), Margarete Böhme, Rudolf Leonhardt, and G.W. Pabst’s Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl, 1929), with Subtitles, Complete, Free, and Without Commercial Interruptions, at the WEJB/NSU Theater!


At WEJB/NSU, we don’t just do murder; we do prostitution, too! See Louise Brooks, in her breakout role (before Pandora’s Box!), Margarete Böhme, Rudolf Leonhardt, and G.W. Pabst’s Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl, 1929), with Subtitles, Complete, Free, and Without Commercial Interruptions, at the WEJB/NSU Theater!

By N.S.

When I saw this, it was on the CUNY/GSUC station (of my graduate school alma mater—I was indicted for a Ph.D., but walked on a plea bargain and time served). The tenured idiot host insisted that the acting was extraordinarily naturalistic.

The hell, it was. Each time a man carried the protagonist off to have sex with her, whether it was the big, assistant pharmacist who deflowered her (and knocked her up) at 14, or her first john as a prostitute in a brothel, she flopped on his shoulder limp, as if she had already climaxed.

To become a tenured college college professor nowadays, it’s just like with being a school teacher: You have to take an I.Q. and an intellectual integrity test. In each case, if you pass, you flunk, and if you flunk, you pass.

The protagonist is the daughter of a wealthy druggist. On the night after her confirmation, Her father’s huge assistant, carries her off to his bed, and knocks her up. The synopsis at the german imdb.com claims she refused to marry him, but my recollection was that he refused to marry her. She ends up in a school for wayward girls, breaks out, ends up in a brothel, and … that’s where my memory quits.





1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Was that the Jerry Carlson- hosted show that ran Saturday nights at 9 PM? He was awful-looking, but he did show a lot of offbeat "art house"-type movies that were hard to see at that time! Much appreciated in the days before everything was available on cable TV or home video.

-RM