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Josef Von Sternberg - what members say

Blonde Venus review by Zamy from London

Leading man trouble 1 March 2007
...s is similar to the other films that Deitrich made with her 'svengali' director Josef Von Sternberg. They all carry his trademark of virtuoso lighting (perhaps over-lighting) and ... Read customer review

Scarlet Empress review by Zamy from London

Svengali and his Muse 9 August 2010
...Josef Von Sternberg directed Marlene Dietrich in 5 Hollywood movies in the 1930’s and they are all still worth watching today. If you want to see where it all began then have a re... Read customer review

Josef Von Sternberg - filmography

Jet Pilot on DVD (1957)
Starring: John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Certificate:
Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. All does not go to plan...

57% from 286 members

Macao on DVD (1952)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Certificate:
Jane Russell stars as a nightclub singer caught up with wanderer Mitchum in this story of intrigue set in the Far East.

34% from 5 members

Shanghai Gesture on DVD (1941)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Certificate:
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy Charteris, wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a large area of Shanghai, forcing Gin Sling to vacate by the coming ..read more »

63% from 65 members

The Devil Is a Woman on DVD (1935)
Starring: Marlene Diestrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Certificate:
Told in flashbacks Devil Is A Woman is a tale of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is Sternberg's surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. In a cafe the older man details his encounters with the heartbreaker that his younger ..read more »

65% from 156 members

Scarlet Empress on DVD (1934)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Certificate:
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the most opulent and exotic. Marlene Dietrich plays the German-born Catherine, who is required to marry Russia's mad Grand Duke Peter (Sam Jaffe, decked out in a Harpo Marx wig). ..read more »

66% from 497 members

Shanghai Express on DVD (1932)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
Director: Josef von Sternberg, Josef Von Sternberg
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Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army doctor, Donald Harvey, knew Lil before she became a famous "coaster." A fellow ..read more »

71% from 394 members

Blonde Venus on DVD (1932)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant
Director: Josef Von Sternberg, Josef von Sternberg
Certificate:
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance of being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the ..read more »

67% from 351 members

Dishonored on DVD (1931)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise. Marlene Dietrich delivers a subtle and witty performance as a Viennese prostitute who offers her services as a spy during WWI. As Agent X-27 our heroine proves invaluable to her ..read more »

70% from 77 members

Morocco on DVD (1930)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously ..read more »

68% from 165 members

The Blue Angel (2 discs) on DVD (1930)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Certificate:
This Josef Von Sternberg film, based on Heinrich Mann's novel PROFESSOR UNRAT, made Marlene Dietrich a celebrity and began a tumultuous relationship between star and director that spanned Sternberg's most creative period. The film features Emil Jannings as Dr. Immanuel Rath, a provincial prep ..read more »

66% from 1,306 member

Josef Von Sternberg facts

5 most recent films

Jet Pilot - 3.0 stars
Macao - 1.5 stars
Shanghai Gesture - 3.0 stars
The Devil Is a Woman - 3.5 stars
Scarlet Empress - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shanghai Express - 3.5 stars
Dishonored - 3.5 stars
Morocco - 3.5 stars
Blonde Venus - 3.5 stars
The Blue Angel - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Macao - 1.5 stars
Jet Pilot - 3.0 stars
Shanghai Gesture - 3.0 stars
The Devil Is a Woman - 3.5 stars
Scarlet Empress - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Marlene Dietrich - 9 times - show films
Kurt Gerron - 3 times - show films
Emil Jannings - 3 times - show films
Hans Albers - 3 times - show films
Gavin Gordon - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Josef von Sternberg - 2 times - show films