Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.
Eddie Prinz
- Biff
- (as Edward Prinz)
Vera Marshe
- Call of the Wild
- (as Vera Marsh)
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- TriviaAs things begin to go awry on board, one of the crew comments "Remember the Shenandoah." This refers to the tragic crash in a sudden thunderstorm of the USS Shenandoah airship on September 3, 1925 in southeastern Ohio, which would have been a widely known event.
- GoofsEven though the dirigible was caught up in a fierce storm just a few hundred feet off the ground, there was no sign of a storm on the ground where the parachuting party guests landed.
- Quotes
Romeo: I never repented a sin.
Jimmy Wade: I never repeated one.
Bob Brooks: Well, I've never been able to believe that anything I did - was a sin.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown with smoke rising in the background, a reference to "satan", as mentioned in the title.
- ConnectionsEdited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
- SoundtracksThe Cat Walk
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Herbert Stothart
Lyrics by Clifford Grey
Sung and danced by party guests boarding the zeppelin
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When I first saw "Madam Satan," on Turner Classic Movies, Robert Osborne said it might be the strangest movie ever made by the great director Cecil B. DeMille. I tend to agree with him. This was one of three films he had made at MGM, during the only time he was away from Paramount. None of the three films were apparently very good. Not only was DeMille frustrated by studio chief Louis B. Mayer was disappointed and infuriated; little wonder that DeMille and Mayer soon parted company.
In any case, "Madam Satan" is rather slow-moving, clumsy, and awkward, much as is the case with early sound films. It never makes up its mind either as it delves into melodrama, comedy, music, and even a little horror. Nevertheless, it has some garish, spectacular moments. The mechanical ballet on the moored dirigible is rather fascinating and certainly quite peculiar. It is the height of Hollywood kitsch. The best sequence is when the dirigible is struck by lightning during a ferocious thunderstorm and everyone on the airship must parachute to safety.
We will always wonder what DeMille had in mind when he made the film. It was certainly risqué and daring for its time, but it actually didn't do very well at the box office and the critics were puzzled by it. It remains today as a curiosity at best.
In any case, "Madam Satan" is rather slow-moving, clumsy, and awkward, much as is the case with early sound films. It never makes up its mind either as it delves into melodrama, comedy, music, and even a little horror. Nevertheless, it has some garish, spectacular moments. The mechanical ballet on the moored dirigible is rather fascinating and certainly quite peculiar. It is the height of Hollywood kitsch. The best sequence is when the dirigible is struck by lightning during a ferocious thunderstorm and everyone on the airship must parachute to safety.
We will always wonder what DeMille had in mind when he made the film. It was certainly risqué and daring for its time, but it actually didn't do very well at the box office and the critics were puzzled by it. It remains today as a curiosity at best.
- sallyrob-1
- Jun 16, 2004
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- Madame Satan
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- Budget
- $980,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,005
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
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