The Shoe Palace (Schuhpalast pinkus) Sally Pinkus (played by Lubitsch himself) is an entrepreneurial German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school.
Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more upmarket shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate fetishistic dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.
This key early Lubitsch work is also notable for being an early collaboration with regular writer Hans Kräly.
