Queen Kelly opens in the imaginary European country of Cobourg-Nassau some time before World War I, where the vain and cruel Queen Regina V obsesses over her feckless fiancé, Prince “Wild” Wolfram. When the dissolute prince encounters Kelly, an innocent but captivating convent girl portrayed by Gloria Swanson, he falls madly in love. Desperate to see her before his impending marriage to the Queen, he kidnaps the girl and brings her to his rooms in the palace. When the Queen discovers the lovers, she throws the young girl into the night to face other unforeseen perils. Reconstructed by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller of Milestone Films in 2025 from nitrate materials and stills courtesy of the George Eastman Museum. (Eric von Stroheim, 1929, DCP, 101 minutes)