Ladies of Leisure 4K 1926 Ultra HD 2160p

Storyline
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her.Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex husband tries to blackmail her. Mamie is saved from suicide by Eric, who's in a compromising position when he brings her home.

User Review
I watched this film last night from a DVD print I bought off of ebay, a really bad print, though watchable (only) with a grating musical score. I certainly would not rate the film at three stars, but it possibly deserves two to nearly two and a half. That is being generous. I found the mixture of comedy and melodrama disconcerting. The comedy is handled by Gertrude Short, Tom Ricketts, and T. Roy Barnes, although each also contributes a small portion towards the melodramatic part of the plot, too. Elaine Hammerstein, Jim Mason, and Robert Ellis supply the melodrama. The melodrama is interesting, a plot that is part of so many silent films; the comedy is cute, by now hackneyed, though it probably wasn't in 1926. The two plot editing is slightly disconcerting; the direction only marginal. The acting is very good and holds the attention.

It's too bad that a nice print is not available for sale because the one that is out there is really lousy. I wasn't sure if this film was a precursor to the Capra directed Stanwyck version of 1930 (a film I particularly like), but it's not. Don't confuse the two. This silent is directed by Tom Buckingham, a director of 50 films, but also a writer and cinematographer. He died in 1934 at the young age of 39.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (48.4 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p
HDR: HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Info Audio

#English: FLAC 2.0

Info Subtitles

English SDH, French, German, Italian, Spanish.