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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The film makes it clear that Karl likes to sleep around.
--> '''Karl''': [addressing his former employer] I thought that I had given madam ''full satisfaction''.
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--> '''Karl''': [addressing his former employer] I thought that I had given madam ''full satisfaction''.
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* SexyDiscretionShot: Karl kisses Anna. The camera pans away to Anna's figurine of a ballerina under a glass dome, sitting on a table. Karl's coat gets thrown on top of the figurine.
* YourCheatingHeart: The Baroness is carrying on an affair. Later, Anna breaks down and sleeps with Karl.
* YourCheatingHeart: The Baroness is carrying on an affair. Later, Anna breaks down and sleeps with Karl.
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* SexyDiscretionShot: Karl kisses Anna. The camera pans away to Anna's figurine of a ballerina under a glass dome, sitting on a table. Karl's coat gets thrown on top of the figurine.
* YourCheatingHeart: The Baroness is carrying on an affair. Later, Anna breaks down and sleeps with Karl.figurine.
* YourCheatingHeart: The Baroness is carrying on an affair. Later, Anna breaks down and sleeps with Karl.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Newspaper reviews from 1932 indicate that the original version of ''Downstairs'' ended with Albert drowning Karl in a vat of wine (note the huge vats in the basement winery). Apparently exhibitors didn't like this ending, so the studio went with the KarmaHoudini ending instead.
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* WeddingEpisode: The film opens with Karl's marriage to Anna.
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* WeddingDay: The film opens with Karl's marriage to Anna.
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* TheCameo: An uncredited Karen Morley (''[[Film/{{Scarface1932}} Scarface]]'') appears in the last scene as Karl's new employer.
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''Downstairs'' is a 1932 [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code]] film directed by Monta Bell, starring Creator/JohnGilbert (''Film/TheBigParade'') and Paul Lukas (''Film/WatchOnTheRhine''). Lukas is Albert, the head butler and chief of servants at the Austrian mansion of Baron von Burgen. Things are going swimmingly, as Albert has just married the pretty ladies' maid Anna (Virginia Bruce). The wedding coincides with the arrival of Karl, the new chauffeur (Gilbert). Karl is an evil schemer, who winds up sleeping with half of the residents of the Bergen mansion and blackmailing the other half. He seduces poor Anna, as well as Sophie, the homely, middle-aged cook, from whom he extracts her entire life savings. Karl wants to run away with Anna, but Albert isn't going to sit back and let that happen.
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''Downstairs'' is a 1932 [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code]] film directed by Monta Bell, starring Creator/JohnGilbert (''Film/TheBigParade'') and Paul Lukas (''Film/WatchOnTheRhine'').
Lukas is Albert, the head butler and chief of servants at the Austrian mansion of Baron von Burgen. Things are going swimmingly, as Albert has just married the pretty ladies' maid Anna (Virginia Bruce). The wedding coincides with the arrival of Karl, the new chauffeur (Gilbert). Karl is an evil schemer, who winds up sleeping with half of the residents of the Bergen mansion and blackmailing the other half. He seduces poor Anna, as well as Sophie, the homely, middle-aged cook, from whom he extracts her entire life savings. Karl wants to run away with Anna, but Albert isn't going to sit back and let that happen.
Lukas is Albert, the head butler and chief of servants at the Austrian mansion of Baron von Burgen. Things are going swimmingly, as Albert has just married the pretty ladies' maid Anna (Virginia Bruce). The wedding coincides with the arrival of Karl, the new chauffeur (Gilbert). Karl is an evil schemer, who winds up sleeping with half of the residents of the Bergen mansion and blackmailing the other half. He seduces poor Anna, as well as Sophie, the homely, middle-aged cook, from whom he extracts her entire life savings. Karl wants to run away with Anna, but Albert isn't going to sit back and let that happen.
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''Downstairs'' is a 1932 [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code]] film directed by Monta Bell, starring John Gilbert (''Film/TheBigParade'') and Paul Lukas (''Film/WatchOnTheRhine''). Lukas is Albert, the head butler and chief of servants at the Austrian mansion of Baron von Burgen. Things are going swimmingly, as Albert has just married the pretty ladies' maid Anna (Virginia Bruce). The wedding coincides with the arrival of Karl, the new chauffeur (Gilbert). Karl is an evil schemer, who winds up sleeping with half of the residents of the Bergen mansion and blackmailing the other half. He seduces poor Anna, as well as Sophie, the homely, middle-aged cook, from whom he extracts her entire life savings. Karl wants to run away with Anna, but Albert isn't going to sit back and let that happen.
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''Downstairs'' is a 1932 [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code]] film directed by Monta Bell, starring John Gilbert Creator/JohnGilbert (''Film/TheBigParade'') and Paul Lukas (''Film/WatchOnTheRhine''). Lukas is Albert, the head butler and chief of servants at the Austrian mansion of Baron von Burgen. Things are going swimmingly, as Albert has just married the pretty ladies' maid Anna (Virginia Bruce). The wedding coincides with the arrival of Karl, the new chauffeur (Gilbert). Karl is an evil schemer, who winds up sleeping with half of the residents of the Bergen mansion and blackmailing the other half. He seduces poor Anna, as well as Sophie, the homely, middle-aged cook, from whom he extracts her entire life savings. Karl wants to run away with Anna, but Albert isn't going to sit back and let that happen.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Albert confronts her about her infidelity, Anna lets him have it, basically saying that his neglect drove her into Karl's arms.
--> '''Anna''': All right, you good, good man. I’ll stop this kind of talk. You believe exactly what you want to believe, but you listen. Whatever’s happened, some of it’s your fault. Some of it. You think you can make love in the same frozen way you do everything else and you think that’s all I should ever have any wish for? Well, I tell you plain and straight right now, it’s nothing of the kind. I meant no harm. I don’t want anything but you in my home. But if you’re going to be so good, and so perfect, and so unforgiving, then I can’t have that. Then I thank heaven there is something else. Something that makes you so dizzy that you don’t know what’s happened and you don’t care. Now you go ahead and believe anything you like.
--> '''Anna''': All right, you good, good man. I’ll stop this kind of talk. You believe exactly what you want to believe, but you listen. Whatever’s happened, some of it’s your fault. Some of it. You think you can make love in the same frozen way you do everything else and you think that’s all I should ever have any wish for? Well, I tell you plain and straight right now, it’s nothing of the kind. I meant no harm. I don’t want anything but you in my home. But if you’re going to be so good, and so perfect, and so unforgiving, then I can’t have that. Then I thank heaven there is something else. Something that makes you so dizzy that you don’t know what’s happened and you don’t care. Now you go ahead and believe anything you like.
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''Downstairs'' is a 1932 [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra Pre-Code]] film directed by Monta Bell, starring John Gilbert (''Film/TheBigParade'') and Paul Lukas (''Film/WatchOnTheRhine''). Lukas is Albert, the head butler and chief of servants at the Austrian mansion of Baron von Burgen. Things are going swimmingly, as Albert has just married the pretty ladies' maid Anna (Virginia Bruce). The wedding coincides with the arrival of Karl, the new chauffeur (Gilbert). Karl is an evil schemer, who winds up sleeping with half of the residents of the Bergen mansion and blackmailing the other half. He seduces poor Anna, as well as Sophie, the homely, middle-aged cook, from whom he extracts her entire life savings. Karl wants to run away with Anna, but Albert isn't going to sit back and let that happen.
''Downstairs'' was taken from an original story by Gilbert, who sold the story to Creator/{{MGM}} for $1 so the film would get made. Gilbert, a huge star in the silent era whose career had tanked with the advent of talking films, had hoped that this movie would revive his career, so one might wonder why he wrote for himself the role of the irredeemable evil blackmailer. The film was a flop as were all of Gilbert's other talking films, and Gilbert's film career ground to a halt well before he died of a heart attack in 1936, but ''Downstairs'' is remembered today as one of Gilbert's best talking films and one of the best films of the pre-Code era. This film, along with all of Gilbert's other talkies, also disproves the myth that his career collapsed because of a high voice that was unsuitable to talking film.
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!!This film exhibits the following tropes:
* {{Blackmail}}: Karl blackmails the mistress of the house, Baroness von Burgen (Olga Baclanova, ''Film/{{Freaks}}'') after she has Karl drive her to an assignation with her lover.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Inverted.
--> '''Baroness''': Do you realize that this is blackmail?
--> '''Karl''': That's just the word I was trying to remember.
* TheCameo: An uncredited Karen Morley (''[[Film/{{Scarface1932}} Scarface]]'') appears in the last scene as Karl's new employer.
* ComfortingComforter: Albert returns to his and Anna's room after their big confrontation in which she admitted she cheated on him. He finds her sleeping on the couch. He carries her to their bed, and tucks her in.
* DramaticIrony: Karl tells Anna a sob story about how he's had a hard life, always fending for himself, he'd never been in love before, and he didn't know how to treat a good girl like her. He says he'll walk away forever. She says an emotional "Goodbye?", and his predatory evil grin as she faces away from him reveals that he's conning her.
* DrivingADesk: Very, very obvious when Karl is driving the Baroness around.
* FocusGroupEnding: Newspaper reviews from 1932 indicate that the original version of ''Downstairs'' ended with Albert drowning Karl in a vat of wine (note the huge vats in the basement winery). Apparently exhibitors didn't like this ending, so the studio went with the KarmaHoudini ending instead.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The film makes it clear that Karl likes to sleep around.
--> '''Karl''': [addressing his former employer] I thought that I had given madam ''full satisfaction''.
* HereWeGoAgain: The film ends with Karl entering into the employment of another rich lady.
* IronicEchoCut: A servant is counting the drinks that are being set out for a party at the mansion. Cut, without missing a beat and in perfect number sequence, to Karl counting the money he's stolen from Sophie.
* KarmaHoudini: Albert calls Karl's bluff, physically attacks him, and throws him out on his ear. But the film ends with Karl entering into the employment of another rich lady, up to his old tricks.
* LiteralAssKicking: Albert does this after calling Karl's bluff and while throwing him out of the mansion at the end of the film.
* MatchCut: The camera focuses tightly on a loose button of Karl's coat, swinging on a thread after Anna ripped the coat off of him. Cut to the windshield wiper in a car moving back and forth as Albert and the Baron ride home from the Baron's fishing trip.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Karl kisses Anna. The camera pans away to Anna's figurine of a ballerina under a glass dome, sitting on a table. Karl's coat gets thrown on top of the figurine.
* WeddingDay: The film opens with Karl's marriage to Anna.
* YourCheatingHeart: The Baroness is carrying on an affair. Later, Anna breaks down and sleeps with Karl.
''Downstairs'' was taken from an original story by Gilbert, who sold the story to Creator/{{MGM}} for $1 so the film would get made. Gilbert, a huge star in the silent era whose career had tanked with the advent of talking films, had hoped that this movie would revive his career, so one might wonder why he wrote for himself the role of the irredeemable evil blackmailer. The film was a flop as were all of Gilbert's other talking films, and Gilbert's film career ground to a halt well before he died of a heart attack in 1936, but ''Downstairs'' is remembered today as one of Gilbert's best talking films and one of the best films of the pre-Code era. This film, along with all of Gilbert's other talkies, also disproves the myth that his career collapsed because of a high voice that was unsuitable to talking film.
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!!This film exhibits the following tropes:
* {{Blackmail}}: Karl blackmails the mistress of the house, Baroness von Burgen (Olga Baclanova, ''Film/{{Freaks}}'') after she has Karl drive her to an assignation with her lover.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Inverted.
--> '''Baroness''': Do you realize that this is blackmail?
--> '''Karl''': That's just the word I was trying to remember.
* TheCameo: An uncredited Karen Morley (''[[Film/{{Scarface1932}} Scarface]]'') appears in the last scene as Karl's new employer.
* ComfortingComforter: Albert returns to his and Anna's room after their big confrontation in which she admitted she cheated on him. He finds her sleeping on the couch. He carries her to their bed, and tucks her in.
* DramaticIrony: Karl tells Anna a sob story about how he's had a hard life, always fending for himself, he'd never been in love before, and he didn't know how to treat a good girl like her. He says he'll walk away forever. She says an emotional "Goodbye?", and his predatory evil grin as she faces away from him reveals that he's conning her.
* DrivingADesk: Very, very obvious when Karl is driving the Baroness around.
* FocusGroupEnding: Newspaper reviews from 1932 indicate that the original version of ''Downstairs'' ended with Albert drowning Karl in a vat of wine (note the huge vats in the basement winery). Apparently exhibitors didn't like this ending, so the studio went with the KarmaHoudini ending instead.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The film makes it clear that Karl likes to sleep around.
--> '''Karl''': [addressing his former employer] I thought that I had given madam ''full satisfaction''.
* HereWeGoAgain: The film ends with Karl entering into the employment of another rich lady.
* IronicEchoCut: A servant is counting the drinks that are being set out for a party at the mansion. Cut, without missing a beat and in perfect number sequence, to Karl counting the money he's stolen from Sophie.
* KarmaHoudini: Albert calls Karl's bluff, physically attacks him, and throws him out on his ear. But the film ends with Karl entering into the employment of another rich lady, up to his old tricks.
* LiteralAssKicking: Albert does this after calling Karl's bluff and while throwing him out of the mansion at the end of the film.
* MatchCut: The camera focuses tightly on a loose button of Karl's coat, swinging on a thread after Anna ripped the coat off of him. Cut to the windshield wiper in a car moving back and forth as Albert and the Baron ride home from the Baron's fishing trip.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Karl kisses Anna. The camera pans away to Anna's figurine of a ballerina under a glass dome, sitting on a table. Karl's coat gets thrown on top of the figurine.
* WeddingDay: The film opens with Karl's marriage to Anna.
* YourCheatingHeart: The Baroness is carrying on an affair. Later, Anna breaks down and sleeps with Karl.
