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Morocco

Drama 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 ... [+]
Media Author Review
Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
"By clever acting and skilful production, strong dramatic interest is given to an ordinary love story in Morocco."
Australia
The Age
"Von Sternberg, the producer, displays ingenuity in the invention of details about life in Morocco."
United States
The New York Times
"[Mr. von Sternberg] accepts absurdly improbable situations, and he is often guilty of extraordinarily abrupt happenings and inconsistent characterizations." 
United States
Chicago Reader
"This 1930 feature was Josef von Sternberg's first American film with Marlene Dietrich, and some purists might declare it the best·
United States
Variety
"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." 
United Kingdom
Time Out
"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." 
United States
TV Guide
"Marlene Dietrich's first American film is an atmospheric tale of love during wartime, exquisitely directed by Josef von Sternberg."
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