Morocco /
Set in Morocco, the film navigates a labyrinth of melancholy and desire as the cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich), fleeing her former life, takes her act to the shores of North Africa, where she entertains the overtures of a wealthy man of the world (Menjou) while finding herself increasingly drawn...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Blu-ray special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
931. |
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| Summary: | Set in Morocco, the film navigates a labyrinth of melancholy and desire as the cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich), fleeing her former life, takes her act to the shores of North Africa, where she entertains the overtures of a wealthy man of the world (Menjou) while finding herself increasingly drawn to a strapping legionnaire with a shadowy past of his own (Gary Cooper). |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen ; statement of responsibility and crew credits partially from boxed set's accompanying book. Originally released as a motion picture in 1930. Based on the play Amy Jolly / Benno Vigny. Full screen (1.19:1 aspect ratio). Issued in a boxed set: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood, which includes an accompanying book. Special features: 2014 interview with film scholar Janet Bergstrom discussing the production of Morocco; Weimar on the Pacific, a new documentary about Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg; Brief interview with Deutsche Kinemathek curator Silke Ronneburg on the "real" Amy Jolly; The legionnaire and the lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of an adaptation of Morocco starring Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (80 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm) |
| Format: | Blu-ray; region A; LPCM 1.0; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Lee Garmes ; editor, Sam Winston ; music, Karl Hajos. |
| ISBN: | 9781681434629 1681434628 9781681434605 1681434601 |