Morocco
By: directed by Josef von Sternberg ; screenplay by Jules Furthman ; produced by Hector Turnbull
Contributors: Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961, actor; Dietrich, Marlene, actor; Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963, actor; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Series: Criterion collection -- 931; Criterion collection -- 931.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781681434636
Subjects: Drama; Women singers; Man-woman relationships
Description: A cabaret singer arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight, until she finally falls in love. Blonde Venus: An aspiring young actress gives up the stage to marry a scientist who becomes afflicted with radium poisoning. She returns to cabaret life and meets a wealthy playboy who gives her the money for her husband's treatment. The devil is a woman: At the turn of the century, in the port town of Seville, it's carnival week, and the blood of enemies and the passions of lovers run hot. But, none so much as those of a young revolutionary, his old friend, and the new woman who comes between them both. The flame of New Orleans: An impoverished countess arrives in New Orleans with one thing in mind, to marry a wealthy man. Golden earrings: A Hungarian gypsy rescues a British intelligence officer and helps him to accomplish his mission
Notes: Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1930.

Full screen (1.19:1).

Special features: New interview with Janet Bergstrom; Weimar on the Pacific, a new documentary about Dietrich's German origins; brief interview with Silke Ronneburg; The Legionnaire and the lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film.

Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, full screen (1.19:1); Dolby mono.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).