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Downstairs is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film. It stars John Gilbert as a charming but self-serving chauffeur who wreaks havoc on his new employer's household, romancing and fleecing the women on the staff, and blackmailing the employer's wife. Gilbert had written the story in 1928 for a proposed silent film that was never produced.
Downstairs: Directed by Monta Bell. With John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce, Hedda Hopper. An amoral chauffeur seeks to seduce a young bride.
An evil chauffeur seduces and blackmails his way through high society.
Dec 13, 2009 · John Gilbert stars in this entertaining 1932 drama based on Gilbert's own original story. In this scene, Gilbert gives a brilliant performance as the lecherous chauffer, Karl - a devious and ...
Sep 26, 2014 · Critics hated Downstairs in 1932, and audiences didn’t like it much better. Towards the end of the movie a heroic Paul Lukas thrashes John Gilbert’s character, calling him a “filthy skunk” and a “yellow rat,” while smacking him around the cellar of their master's home.
Oct 9, 2012 · Downstairs reminds me a lot of Gosford Park, Robert Altman’s film from earlier this century about a murder mystery set in a divided English manor. Both movies take more interest in the servants than the bumbling barons and baronesses, and both contain a kernel of resentful sadness about the world all of these characters are most assuredly ...
Synopsis. HE WAS A BACHELOR ON A PERPETUAL HONEYMOON! In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive.
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Downstairs (1932) - Directed by Monta Bell, produced by Monta Bell and starring John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce, Hedda Hopper, Reginald Owen, Olga Baclanova, Bodil Rosing, Otto Hoffman,and more...
Downstairs is a film directed by Monta Bell with John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce, Hedda Hopper .... Year: 1932. Original title: Downstairs. Synopsis: All seems joyful in the house of the Baron and Baroness von Burgen (Reginald Owen and Olga Baclanova).
