Review of Madam Satan

Madam Satan (1930)
6/10
"A heat wave is coming."
7 April 2020
Well it's certainly a curiosity. The first forty-five minutes to an hour is pretty boring. Lots of handwringing melodrama and old-fashioned ideas about what a woman needs to do to keep her man and so on. The second hour is where the money is. DeMille eccentricity on full display with wild costumes and sets and an exciting climax involving a zeppelin crash. The songs are not great. The number where Madam Satan reveals herself is intriguing because of the costumes and stuff but her singing style (think of a bird trill) gave me the creeps. The best thing about this is that it's a nice-looking film.
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