The Wedding March (1928) on Netflix
In 1914 Vienna, Prince Nicki, a broke cavalry commander, falls for Mitzi, an innkeeper's daughter promised to the butcher Schani. His family's debts push him toward marrying wealth.
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- IMDb7.3/102,055 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes64%
Plot summary
Prince Nicki is the heir of a rundown noble family and commands a cavalry regiment in Vienna in 1914. At a parade before St. Stephen's Cathedral he notices Mitzi, an innkeeper's daughter who works as a harpist and whose parents expect her to marry Schani, a butcher. Schani spits and embarrasses her at the family table while she and Nicki flirt across the crowd. A gun salute frightens Nicki's horse, which injures Mitzi and sends her to a hospital; Nicki has Schani arrested. Nicki visits her at the hospital and later at the pub where she plays, and they begin going on dates. His family's financial troubles having been made known to him, a wealthy factory owner approaches Nicki about marrying his daughter Cecelia.
Cast
- Anton Vaverkaas Emperor Franz-Josef
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- Claire Delmaras Noble Lady at Corpus Christi Mass(uncredited)
- Ray Erlenbornas Altar boy(uncredited)
- Danny Hoyas Mountain Guide
- Hans Jobyas Imperial Guard
- Tiny Jonesas Small Woman at Corpus Christi Procession
- Peggy Eamesas Little Girl at Corpus Christi Procession(uncredited)
- Carey Harrisonas Imperial Guard(uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Wedding March (1928)
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- Erich von Stroheim told his cast and crew on The Wedding March that if necessary they would film 24,000 takes of a scene until they got it right, and over the six months of filming he shot more than 200,000 feet of film.
- For The Wedding March, Erich von Stroheim rebuilt huge sets for St. Stephen's Cathedral and the streets around it, plus an entire apple orchard whose thousands of blossoms were individually tied to the trees.
- Erich von Stroheim's first cut of part two of The Wedding March ran 22,484 feet, and after he trimmed it the studio and director Josef von Sternberg cut it further: only 4,500 feet of his original cut appeared in the final film.
- After a disastrous preview at the Egyptian Theater in Long Beach, California, Paramount decided to release The Wedding March as two films after all, retitling the second part The Honeymoon.
- In 1950 Henri Langlois of the Cinémathèque Française let Erich von Stroheim re-edit The Wedding March and The Honeymoon from prints he owned, adding sound effects. The last known copy of The Honeymoon was destroyed in a fire there on July 10, 1959.
- The Wedding March's original budget was estimated at $300,000, but by the time producer Pat Powers shut down production it had risen to $1,250,000.
- Paramount first released The Wedding March on VHS in 1987 but replaced J. S. Zamecnik's full orchestral score with a new pipe organ score.
