"What Fools We Men Are..."

Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer was a genius! A master story teller who directed only 23 films but made the most of them. Most horror fans know him for his eerie early talky VAMPYR but he tackled a whole slew of subjects including comedy where MASTER OF THE HOUSE this 1925 silent film kind of falls into.

Paul, a spoiled rude husband is so domineering and disrespectful of his wife that he nearly drives her to a nervous breakdown. The wife's mother and Paul's childhood nanny devise a plan. They send the wife away to recooperate in the country and Nana takes over the household. Paul learns first hand just how much he took for granted.

Despite it's humorous intent, it's overtone is quite serious and at times you really feel sorry for Paul even though he's brought the whole predicament on himself.

TCM has shown a lot of Dreyer's films in the last couple of years. Catch some of his other films if you can including: LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK (a history of the devil), CHAINED (gay love triangle), THE PASSION OF ST. JOAN (an amazing movie about the trial of Joan of Arc) and DAY OF WRATH (about witchcraft).



"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing"-Oscar Wilde

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