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Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

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Date: 24 Oct 2015 11:25:00
Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

Morocco (1930)
DVD5 | ISO | PAL 4:3 | DVD Scan | 01:28:16 | 4,30 Gb
Audio: English, German - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: English, German,
French, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish
Genre: Romance, Drama

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou

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 into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?

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After her huge success in “The Blue Angel,” which was shot in German and English simultaneously, director Josef von Sternberg asked Marlene Dietrich to come to Hollywood.

Von Sternberg gave Dietrich American film debut, “Morocco,” a romance about an entertainer torn between wealthy artist Adolphe Menjou and Foreign Legionnaire Gary Cooper. As cabaret singer arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight. But true love reaches her at last.

Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

The film displays Dietrich's quintessential qualities as a mysterious and alluring femme fatale, largely unattainableand imbuing sexual ambiguity, reinforce by her slacks and blazer, which had tremendous impact on fashion off-screen.

Dietrich plays Amy Jolly, an American() singer, who arrives in North Africa and is hired as a singer in a cabaret attended by members of the Foreign Legion. She is immediately pursued by Le Bessier (Adolphe Menjou), a rich, worldly gentleman, but her heart goes for a simpler Legionnaire, the stunningly handsome and shy Tom Brown (Gary Cooper).

Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

Like most of Sternebrg's films with Dietrich, “Morocco” is exquisitely mounted, boasting great direction but hampered by a slender plot; basically one-idea. Thematically, too, the film deals with the helmer's recurrent issues, passion, sexual obsession, and control.

In the next-to-last scene, when Amy asks Kennington why some women are congregating at the town's gate, he explains that these femmes follow their men wherever they go. As the troops move out, and the women follow them, Amy, standing on high-heels, watches in silence.

Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

Then, suddenly, Amy begins to walk out into the sands. Taking her shoes off, she follows Tom into the desert with the wind blowing against her face. Over the years, more has been written about the woman-to-woman kiss and the film's last image than any other aspect of the picture. It's interesting to note that, save from the natural sounds of the winds, Von Sternberg shot this scene in utter silence, and there's not much music (except for Marlene's songs) in the rest of the tale.

Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

In this and other respects the wry, European humor, the subtle if perverse psychology–”Morocco” was ahead of its times, standing out unmistakably as the work of a non-American helmer, who perceived himself as an artist rather than craftsman or storyteller.

Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

Sternberg, who was obsessed with his star, ordered lenser Lee Garmes how to shoot Dietrich to an advantage, from one side with light behind (similar to the way that Garbo was filmed at MGM by William Daniels). When Garmes claimed that unlike the Divine, Dietrich had some imperfect angles, the duo decide to place the camera and key lighting above her and slightly, forward, a technique that made her cheeks more hollowed and heavy eyelids shadowed, while masking her wide nose.

Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

There were squabbles on the set between Cooper and Sternberg, a result of communicating in German and favoring Dietrich's part and appearance over his. Nonetheless, the three worked again in the future.

Interestingly, while Von Sternberg emphasized Dietrich's androgyny, most manifest in a scene in which she kisses a woman on the moth (this is prior to the 1934 Code of Production), Cooper appears more effete, willing to place a rose behind his ear, or smoke with a limp wristin short display manners and mannerism that would disappear completely from his more macho persona of the late 1930s and 1940s.

Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

Paramount held the release of Von Sternberg-Dietrich teaming, “The Blue Angel,” shot before this picture, until “Morocco” opened.

The subject matter outdated quickly, but not the stars. Most critics praised the lead performances. Richard Watts noted in the N.Y. Herald Tribune: “The understandably popular Gary Cooper, who underacts more completely than any other player within memory, never has been as effective and certainly never as expert an actor as he is in the role of the hero.” Thornton Delehanty observed in the NY Evening Post: “The scenes between Dietrich, Cooper, and Menjou, and between any combination of them, throb with portents. Cooper gives one of his best performances in this picture, a restrained and telling piece of work.”
Emanuel Levy
Morocco (1930) [Re-UP]

Special Features: None
Note. This is Disc 6 from Volume 1 of 'Marlene Dietrich Collection'.
Disc 1 is here -> Blonde Venus (1932)
Disc 2 is here -> Dishonored (1931)
Disc 3 is here -> The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Disc 4 is here -> Follow the Boys (1944)
Disc 5 is here -> Golden Earrings (1947)
Disc 6 is here -> Morocco (1930)
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