This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the...
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1990
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This British television documentary, hosted by Dirk Bogarde, is about the aborted 1937 film I Claudius. The film, directed by...
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1965
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If Jet Pilot seems hopelessly out of date today, imagine how filmgoers in 1957 reacted when this relic from 1949 was taken...
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1957
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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The tendency is to scoff at Macao as just another example of Josef von Sternberg's late-career exercises in exoticism; true,...
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1952
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Director, Screenwriter
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1941
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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1939
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Josef Von Sternberg, past directorial master of movie exotica, came down to earth with The King Steps Out, a major studio...
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1936
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1935
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Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1935
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor
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1934
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Director, Producer
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1932
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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1932
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1931
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Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise....
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter
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1931
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Marlene Dietrich became an immediate international star on the strength of her performance as the temptress Lola Frohlich in...
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1930
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Like so many campaigners before him, Gary Cooper joins the Foreign Legion to "forget." At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper...
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1930
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1929
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A lesser-known effort from director Josef Von Sternberg, The Case of Lena Smith has been unfairly chastised for all the wrong...
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1929
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The smokily erotic ambience of Josef Von Sternberg's silent Docks of New York is best appreciated on a big theatrical...
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1928
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1928
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Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur...
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1928
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Josef vonSternberg's The Last Command was inspired by the true story of General Lodijenski, a Russian aristocrat who arrived...
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1928
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Street of Sin was the final American film of Scandinavian director Mauritz Stiller, whose inability to adapt to Hollywood...
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1928
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Contrary to popular belief, Clara Bow was already Paramount's biggest box-office draw when she starred in this delightful...
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1927
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Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead of night...streets...
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1927
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Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1926
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1925
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In the 1920s, when a motion picture featured an Apache, it wasn't referring to Native Americans but to denizens of the...
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1925
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