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- Morocco is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou.
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Titled The Legionnaire and the Lady, Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable performed the story on radio as the first Lux Radio Theatre broadcast on June 1, 1936. The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this movie as one of his 100 favorite films.
Morocco: Directed by Josef von Sternberg. With Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt. A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
- (7.6K)
- Drama, Romance
- Josef von Sternberg
- 1930-12-06
- Synopsis
- Picture 7/10
- Audio 5/10
- Extras 7/10
- Closing
With this romantic reverie, Marlene Dietrich made her triumphant debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralling, insouciant persona that would define her Hollywood collaboration with director Josef von Sternberg. Set on the far side of the world but shot outside Los Angeles, Morocconavigates a labyrinth of melancholy and desire as the...
Josef von Sternberg’s Morocco, the first title in Criterion’s new box set Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood, comes to Blu-ray on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1 with a new 1080p/24hz high-definition encode. This presentation makes use of a new 2K restoration scanned from a 35mm safety fine-grain held by the UCLA Film ...
The lossless PCM 1.0 monaural track does what it cans but I think age ends up playing a bit factor here. The audio is a bit tinny and edgy but you can at least make out the dialogue, and the music, though a bit harsh, doesn’t sound too bad. Unfortunately, there is a very prominent crackling sound throughout, which goes up and down in volume but is ...
Criterion’s six-disc set presents a number of supplements spread across, some specific to a disc’s respective film and others offering more of a general summary of Dietrich’s and von Sternberg’s work. This review will focus specifically on the supplements available on Morocco’s disc. Morocco ends up offering one of the more substantial selection of...
It’s a great way to start out the set. Not the strongest presentation to be found here due to source limitations, but the film still looks astonishingly good despite any limitations and features a solid set of features. BUY AT:
Jul 28, 2019 · The only item that appears both here and on Criterion’s edition is the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film, called The Legionnaire and the Lady. Dietrich reprises her role and Clark Gable now plays Tom Brown, taking over for Gary Cooper.
Morocco. With this romantic reverie, Marlene Dietrich made her triumphant debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralling, insouciant persona that would define her Hollywood collaboration with director Josef von Sternberg.
- Légionnaire Tom Brown
'Morocco' is a romantic drama movie made in 1930 by the German director, Josef von Sternberg. Based on the 1927 novel "Amy Jolly, The Woman of Marrakesh" by Benno Vigny, it is the movie which introduced Sternberg's protegée, Marlene Dietrich to the American public.
Jul 13, 2010 · On March 31, 1930, Marlene Dietrich appeared on the stage of Berlin’s Gloria Palast for the premiere of The Blue Angel before sailing that very night for America to work on Morocco. The director of both films, Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), had long since departed, expecting never to see the actress again.
