Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 050 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German, Others | Runtime: 1h 23mn | Size: 1.32 GB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Director: Tay Garnett | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford
DVD-Rip | MKV x264 at 2 050 Kbps | 720 x 560 (1.402) at 25.000 fps | AC-3 at 192 Kbps (2 ch) 48.0 KHz
Language: English | Subtitles: English, French, German, Others | Runtime: 1h 23mn | Size: 1.32 GB
Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (Indies, 2009) | Director: Tay Garnett | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford
Cabaret singer Bijou (Marlene Dietrich) drifts from one Indonesian island to another due to her talent for inciting riots among the men at the cafés where she sings. Raging fisticuffs at the Blue Devil Café get her deported to Boni-Komba along with two traveling companions, none-too-bright Ned (Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men [1949]), a lout ousted from the Navy, and a shady magician and pickpocket named Sasha (Mischa Auer, My Man Godfrey [1936]). The little island is a port for the U.S. Navy and a refuge for lowlifes, criminals, and ne'er-do-wells. Bijou lands on her feet with a job singing at the Seven Sinners Café, owned by her old friend Tony (Billy Gilbert, His Girl Friday [1940]). She also falls head over heels for a strapping navy lieutenant named Dan Brent (Wayne). There's trouble in low-rent paradise when Bijou's knife-throwing ex-flame Antro (Oskar Homolka, I Remember Mama [1948]) develops a jealous streak, and Lt. Brent's superiors find the idea of a naval officer falling for a rabble-rousing cabaret singer distasteful.
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Seven Sinners was made just a year after John Wayne broke the bonds of B-movie actor and began his rise to A-list star in John Ford's seminal western Stagecoach (1939), so it's no surprise that Marlene Dietrich alone receives above-the-title billing. Directed by Tay Garnett (The Postman Always Rings Twice [1946]), Seven Sinners is a rambunctious comedy brimming with exotica, a rogues' gallery of picaresques, and a fairly potent romantic through-line. Dietrich reportedly spotted Wayne in Universal's commissary and decided she absolutely had to have him. Her insistence on his being cast in Seven Sinners led to an affair between the two that lasted a few years. Their off-screen chemistry is palpable on-screen. They play well against one another, and are combative and flirtatious even as their eyes register slow-burning lust. Their intensity anchors the film's meandering (albeit fun) plot.
Played by nearly any other leading man of the era, Lt. Dan Brent might have been a one-dimensional do-gooder naval officer, but Wayne's über-machismo adds needed substance to the character. He is clearly, effortlessly the alpha male among the crowd of rowdies. Every time he enters the Seven Sinners, he dominates the place with his physical presence and screen charisma. The only drawback to what Wayne's persona brings to Brent is that Oskar Homolka's Antro doesn't come off as a worthy opponent. There's never any doubt as to how a conflict between the two will turn out. Their undercranked fight sequence at the movie's climax is more goofy than exciting. Its end—which implies the men were equally matched—feels implausible.
Tay Garnett's direction imbues the picture with a maximum of lighthearted vigor, giving it a sort of Casablanca-lite flavor. In addition to its crisp direction, smoldering Dietrich-Wayne romance, and Wayne's onscreen power, Seven Sinners also delivers thoroughly entertaining comic performances by Mischa Auer, Broderick Crawford, and the always flummoxed Billy Gilbert. If that's not enough for you, Dietrich sings "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby," "I've Been in Love Before," and "The Man's in the Navy" as only Dietrich can. Seven Sinners isn't a top-shelf classic of Hollywood's golden era, but it's charming and entertaining. (Judge Dan Mancini @ DVD Verdict // August 10th, 2006)
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Review @ Eye For Film:
Tay Garnett’s lightweight but diverting comedy starts as it finishes - with Dietrich’s sultry and flirtatious cabaret singer Bijou facing deportation from yet another south-east Asian island following an extravagant brawl that has wrecked the Seven Sinners bar in which she was performing.
Not much changes in between these two fights (the second of which involves pretty much the whole cast and more besides in a frenzy of flying bodies and splintering balsa wood furniture). She meets John Wayne’s handsome Navy officer and flirts briefly with the idea of marrying him, and spends the rest of the film’s running time fending off the advances of a variety of men including a burnt-out alcoholic, a sinister knife-thrower and a shifty card-sharp.
However, despite the seedy, lowlife cast of characters, there’s never any real sense of danger or threat, and nothing that transpires feels as if it’s of any real importance. Instead, Garnett plays the thin material primarily for good-natured laughs, which by and large keep things moving when nothing of dramatic interest is going on.
John Wayne, who always seems a little more stiff and awkward than usual when stripped of his cowboy hat, six-shooter and horse, is cast in perhaps his least interesting role, often reduced to simply a bland onlooker and near-perfunctory love interest. In fact without his stature, presence and charisma, it would be a complete mystery as to why a woman with as many offers (and talents) as Bijou would get so excited about spending her life with someone quite so dull. Still, Wayne is never less than watchable, and even though his scenes are among the most poorly written and conceived in the film, he manages to emerge relatively unscathed. The rest of the supporting cast, meanwhile, mug and pratfall in a way that might have been more amusing had the script and the jokes been better, but which fortunately never becomes so self-indulgent or daft as to be simply annoying.
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The film, though, essentially belongs to Dietrich. Marlene Dietrich was one of those actors whose very appearance could make even shallow, undemanding fluff such as this worth watching. Her remarkable sense of a scene’s tone elevates the material whenever she appears, and the scenes in which she is absent suffer noticeably by comparison. The producers had clearly seen the celebrated films she made with von Sternberg and decided to simply allow her to do what she does best.
Not only does she get to slink about, singing before adoring officers in an impossible array of dresses and outfits (including an officer’s uniform complete with tie and cap), but the film also functions as a vehicle for her considerable talents as a comedienne. As charming and deft in her delivery of lines as in her parrying of those fed to her, she perfectly captures Bijou’s mischievous yet playful nature, delighting in the trouble she causes whilst relishing the notoriety which follows it.
All in all, Seven Sinners is one of those corny, gently amusing comedies which has improved with time. Instead of dating the picture, the passing of years has given it a naïve charm which it probably didn’t possess when it was released, and which helps to disguise the impoverishment of the superficial script. In the end, it is simply an inoffensive and forgettable film, which meanders along pleasantly without ever threatening to end up anywhere particularly interesting. (Reviewed By: Themroc)
Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
Seven Sinners (1940) - Tay Garnett
Seven Sinners (1940)_amara.mkv
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Duration : 1h 23mn
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Sourced from "De Marlene Dietrich Collectie" (2009) - Indies Home Entertainment (Netherlands)
included subtitles: English, French, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hungarian, Polish, Swedish
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Thank You to To BlackAnchor @ Demonoid
Marlene Dietrich Collection:
Der blaue Engel (1930) (German vesion)
The Blue Angel (1930) (English vesion)
Morocco (1930)
Dishonored (1931)
The Song Of Songs (1933)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
The Devil Is A Woman (1935)
The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Classic Movies:
The Broadway Melody (1929)
The Divorcee (1930)
Libeled Lady (1936)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)