In 1928, after years of struggles within the studio system, Erich von Stroheim found the opportunity to create his crowning achievement: QUEEN KELLY, a storybook romance of intoxicating beauty, counterbalanced with a frightfully grim tale of moral corruption. Gloria Swanson stars as an innocent convent girl who falls under the spell of a handsome prince (Walter Byron) on the eve of his marriage to a diabolical queen (Seena Owen).