A Narrow Escape

A Narrow Escape

1920 · 60 min · ★ 6.8 · Romance, Adventure, Comedy

The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to help but Yvonne Lelys tricks him and he nearly leaves his family for the dancer. He even follows her to Constantinople. He falls asleep while writing to his father and dreams that he is a movie actor who, driven by poverty, sneaks into his father's home to rob him. As his father catches him, he kills him. Thankfully, it was all a dream.

Directed by Yakov Protazanov · Written by Ivan Mosjoukine

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