A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation..
Is it worth your time? If you like movies that look like they were filmed inside a velvet jewelry box, yes. It's for people who appreciate 1930s melodrama that refuses to stay in its lane. If you need your movies to make perfect logical sense, you will probably hate this. Marlene Dietrich is the only reason this thing...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Josef von Sternberg
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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"Is it worth your time? If you like movies that look like they were filmed inside a velvet jewelry box, yes. It's for people who appreciate 1930s melodrama that refuses to stay in its lane. If you need your movies to make perfect logical sense, you will probably hate this. Marlene Dietrich is the only reason this thing works. She spends half the film looking like she’s bored with the script and the other half looking like she’s about to burn the entire set down. The scene where she pops out of t..."
Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, S.K. Lauren
United States
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