A Czech silent from 1924 which was also part of the 2nd Fashion in Film
Festival though the fashion show which presumably gave the reason for its
inclusion is missing from what is a reconstruction of a lost original. Meant
to revive the fortunes of the local film industry and considered by some as the best Czech film to that date, it is really something of a let-down ( and
that is being very polite about it). The female lead is Anny Ondrakova who
later appeared in Hitchcock's British films. The opening sequence of the
eponymous banker being waited on by manicurist, barber and a typist is
mildly witty but the folm then goes off the rails. Meant as a crime film, with
no background for such films locally, the director opted for slapstick which,
with the intertitles, did raise a few laughs from the audience at the BFI.
Apart from the curiosity value of the film, a waste of time.