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The Wedding March (1928)
In director Erich von Stroheim's stately drama:
- the extended flirtatious sequence of the meeting
of dissolute Prince Nicki (director Erich von Stroheim) (on horseback)
and commoner Mitzi (Fay Wray) outside St. Stephens as he prepared
to participate in the Corpus Christi procession
- their courtship under an apple-blossom tree with
a romantic kiss
- the film's controversial and notorious orgy scene
in a brothel populated by an assortment of Chinese, Nubian, and Polynesian
women
- the wedding march itself when Nicki must marry crippled
rich heiress Cecelia Schweisser (Zasu Pitts) for money instead -
witnessed by a tearful Mitzi from the side
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