Blind Husbands

The studio insisted on cutting the film instead of letting Erich von Stroheim do it as he was deemed to be too unstable after allegedly killing a dog during production. Von Stroheim would ensure they didn't do this to him on his next film The Devil's Passkey (1920) by barricading himself into the editing suite with a loaded Winchester.

In one shot, when the wife walks across her bedroom, a spotlight beam is visible on the ground following her.

Most sources state film length of 68 minutes but a restored 101-minute copy of Blind Husbands was screened at the 2022 San Francisco Silent Film Festival on 6 May 2022. Until now, we have only known the abbreviated American version from 1924. But the recent discovery by the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna of an original release print-together with the MoMA (San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art) print and the original screenplay and continuity script found in the archives of Universal Studios-has permitted an altogether new appreciation of Stroheim's singular vision, restoring some seven minutes to the film's length (most of them in extended shots) and reconstructing his careful tinting and toning color scheme.

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