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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924): This groudbreaking political documentary of conditions in the Polish internment camp at Mossleprom following the Polish-Soviet War consists of a sequence of interviews with surviving POWs who express their gratitude for camp nurse and renowned humanitarian Ekaterina Peshkova, the "Cigarrete Girl of Mosselprom." |
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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924): A leggy glamour girl, hawking a tray of goodies, does favors for rich businessmen to help finance her collection of yarn dolls, all the while pestered by her jealous fiancee. Isabelle Daintry lights up the screen, but the scenes in which she tends her stall truly stall the pacing of this otherwise competent melodrama. |
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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924): Betty Balfour, in a thankless role as the daughter of a bankrupt "Cigarette King" (whatever that is), lives in a hovel while working in a cabaret to keep the home fires burning. The weak story is an excuse for covering 7,000 feet of harmless celluloid with legs, close-ups, and smoke rings. |
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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924): This charming romantic comedy is the story of a young girl who is "discovered" by a film crew, becomes an inept "star," and is wooed by a fumbling accountant, a dashing cinematographer, and a corpulent American businessman who is bringing "high fashion" to the Soviet Union. |
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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924): Attractive but empty-headed cigarette girl Zina, having gone from happily single to depressingly single, stops looking for Mr. Wright (the nightclub owner, on whom she nurtures a crush) and finds herself content to settle for Mr. Wong (an exotic knife-thrower). This smoldering tale of sexual immodesty was considered scandalous in its day. |
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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924): On a winter's night, two friends meet at a restaurant. The snow falls heavily, and soon they are unable to leave. Stranded there with only the cook and the cigarette girl from Mosselprom, they spend the night listening to her story. |
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None of the synopses above could possibly be legitimate! |
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I give up! What is the answer? |
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