I need to take a week off from these films The Doll was a blind pick for me so what did I think when I saw it.
I liked it a lot, especially after some of the heavier films I had to watch this woke me up and actually made me chuckle quite a bit. The plot centers around an old Baron who is about to pass away and decides that he needs an heir, his nephew must get married and keep the family line together. Naturally this could be an old story but we get the Pinocchio esque escapes of a doll-maker who can create dolls for men..this is something the monks in the monastery come up with..oh yeah you've got a lot of fat monks that want the...
point being this is one of those wonderfully metaphorical films that is pretty dark if you really think about. As if we're all just puppets to our families and organized religion. Lubitsch played his cynical story for laughs and Ossi Oswalda is so good in this.