What will this Queen Kelly be like? Who knows—but the prospects are tantalizing. 48hills.org/2026/05/screen…
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Restoration. Preservation. Distribution. Messing with the Canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. Now at @milestonefilms.bsky.social
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***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on June 16th on Blu-ray in the US from @MilestoneFilms via @KinoLorber distribution: #QueenKelly (1929)!
It should have been a dream collaboration: a glamorous world-famous movie star (Gloria Swanson) and her financier lover (Joseph P. Kennedy) hire a celebrated director (Erich von Stroheim) to make a groundbreaking masterpiece. Instead, Queen Kelly was canceled mid-production and became the most infamous unfinished film in cinema history. Von Stroheim’s baroque and obsessive drama opens in a European country ruled by a mad Queen (Seena Owen) obsessed with her feckless fiancé, “Wild” Prince Wolfram (Walter Byron). The dissolute prince falls for an innocent but flirtatious convent girl, Patricia Kelly (Swanson), kidnaps her, and brings her to his rooms. When the Queen discovers the lovers, she horsewhips the girl. Returning to the convent, Kelly receives a telegram, summoning her to German East Africa, where her dying aunt begs the girl to wed the syphilitic owner, Jan (Tully Marshall) of the seedy brothel. Basing his reconstruction on von Stroheim’s original scripts, Dennis Doros has employed multiple techniques to recreate the film’s lurid dénouement. Featuring a new orchestral score by Eli Denson.
Reconstruction: Dennis Doros and Amy Heller, Milestone Film. Milestone is grateful to the George Eastman Museum (primary source), Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Harry Ransom Center, and John F. Kennedy Presidential Library for providing original 35mm nitrate materials, photographs, and papers used to create this new version. 4K digital stabilization, timing, and cleanup by Metropolis Post, NYC. Colorist: Jason Crump. Digital restoration artist: Ian Bostick.
Product Extras :
1932 version of Queen Kelly (76 min.)
Audio Commentary by film historian Richard Koszarski
Audio Clips from Paul Ivano, William Margulies, Allan Dwan, and Billy Wilder
Outtakes with optional commentary by film historian Richard Koszarski
WNET Introduction by Gloria Swanson (1966)
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #KinoLorber #MilestoneFilms #ErichVonStroheim #GloriaSwanson
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So looking forward to this release from @KinoLorber and @MilestoneFilms! Hopefully a UK/Europe release at some point. #SilentFilm #QueenKelly.
More info: kinolorber.com/product/queen-…
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