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Morocco

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Original title

Morocco

Year

1930

Running time

92 min.

Country

United States

Director

Josef von Sternberg

Screenwriter

Jules Furthman

Cast

Music

Karl Hajos

Cinematography

Lee Garmes (B&W)

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

In Morocco the nightclub singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich) meets two men, a soldier, Tom Brown (Gary Cooper) and a millionaire, La Bessiere(Adolphe Menjou). She falls in love with the soldier, though the millionaire wants to marry her.

"You’d better go now, I’m beginning to like you," purrs cabaret singer Marlene Dietrich to cocky young soldier boy Gary Cooper. If you’re going to see just one Foreign Legion movie, make it MOROCCO: Dietrich (in her first American film appearance) and Cooper are downright gorgeous, and von Sternberg transforms the two-bit cantinas and barracks of Mogador into a splendid landscape of light & shadow.

Awards: 1930: 4 Nominations for Oscar: Director, Actress (Marlene Dietrich), Art Direction, Cinematography

1930: National Board of Review (NBR): Top 10 films

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Critics' reviews

"The highly nuanced portraits of men and a woman caught between the codes they live by and their deepest, secret impulses, remain very moving and 100 per cent modern."

Tony Rayns: Time Out
"By clever acting and skilful production, strong dramatic interest is given to an ordinary love story in Morocco."

Sydney Morning Herald
"Von Sternberg, the producer, displays ingenuity in the invention of details about life in Morocco."

The Age
"[Mr. von Sternberg] accepts absurdly improbable situations, and he is often guilty of extraordinarily abrupt happenings and inconsistent characterizations."

Mordaunt Hall: The New York Times
"This 1930 feature was Josef von Sternberg's first American film with Marlene Dietrich, and some purists might declare it the best·

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"There's nothing to the picture, except what Josef von Sternberg gives it in direction, and that's giving it more than it's got."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Marlene Dietrich's first American film is an atmospheric tale of love during wartime, exquisitely directed by Josef von Sternberg."

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Morocco

1930

Josef von Sternberg

7.0

(1,387)