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Josef Von Sternberg
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Josef Von Sternberg - filmography
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Shanghai Gesture
(1941)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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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 »
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Due for release on 4th January 2010
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The Devil Is a Woman
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Marlene Diestrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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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 »
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from 112 members
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Scarlet Empress
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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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 »
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from 355 members
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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 »
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71%
from 36 members
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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 »
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The Blue Angel
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1930)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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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 »
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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 ...
