A Woman of the World

• Pola Negri: Countess Elnora Natatorini
• Charles Emmett Mack: Gareth Johns
• Holmes Herbert Richard Granger
• Blanche Mehaffey: Lennie Porter
• Chester Conklin: Sam Poore
• Lucille Ward: Lou Poore
• Guy Oliver: Judge Porter

A Woman of the World is an American feature from director Malcolm St. Clair from the year 1925. Filmed in black -and-white silent film based on the novel The Tattooed Countess by Carl Van Vechten, and is considered the first feature film of the story, in the a wide audience sadomasochistic motifs were shown.

Action

The Countess Elnora Natatorini flees from Europe to her cousin Sam Poore in the small town of Maple Valley in the Midwestern United States, after her last love affair broke through the infidelity of her lover. The tattooed on her forearm Countess smoking and drinking in public, an unheard of at this time behavior.

Soon, she leaves a wide trail of destruction in the lives of very prudish small town residents. It begins regularly to organize parties where to get the villagers against an entrance fee of a few cents an opportunity to meet a real countess. Since both the puritanical District Attorney Richard Granger as well as the young Gareth Johns strive for it, the situation complicated.

Granger wants to chase the Countess from the village, when he gets the impression that they are the younger competitors the advantage. Only as the Countess follows the advice of a long-standing resident of the town and Granger can make the acquaintance with a whip, and it can therefore convince them that he is their favorite. Both eventually marry.