1962 - ROME ADVENTURE, on location love story has the scenic wonders of Troy Donahue's hair

Troy Donahue has awesome hair in Rome Adventure.

Troy's hair, with the assist of a lot of styling gel, whips around on his head in about 3 different ways, It  goes over his head at the top and in the back he's got it perfectly  coiffed coming down behind his head.  Then he's got this side hair thing going which kind of intersects with the other 2 waves of his hair head.  He is also very blonde. 

Angie Dickinson unfortunately made poor hair choices for this film. Angie's hair is really odd looking, it's pulled way back in a beehive thing throughout the film so it looks like she has a really large forehead kind of like that creature from This Island Earth. 

Suzanne Pleshette can't really compete with these 2 hair hogs but she gives it a decent try.  She sticks a ribbon in her hair and some curly thing a ma gigs that she twists around.  Unfortunately she's just not in the ballgame.

It's just hard for the ladies in this film to compete with Troy

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1919 - BLIND HUSBANDS, Erich Von Stroheim's impressive first film

In his first film Erich Von Stroheim is the auteur in every sense, he wrote the story, directed and starred as the slimy Teutonic military officer who attempts to seduce the wife of an American doctor on a mountain climbing holiday in Switzerland.

This is an extremely well made and acted silent film.  Von Stroheim already shows his fascination with the less then sterling side of human nature.  His fascination with Prussian military attitudes is a part of this film and will continue on through many of his films. He clearly enjoys himself as the Prussian  officer trying to get the American doctor's wife into bed.  

For a first time director Von Stroheim showed a pretty strong command of the film medium.  He moves the story along with a strong visual sense and keeps the silent acting of the cast under control having them give naturalistic performances. 

The film's climax during a mountain climbing expedition shows Von Stroheim  setting  the dramatic climax against an impressive background. Arnold Fanck clearly learned a thing or two from Von Stroheim. 

This is a sharply observed character study made by a tough uncompromising filmmaker.  As has been noted, Erich Von Stroheim went on to create a series of impressive films only compromised by his exacting methods and his increasingly extravagant spending on each succeeding film