Morocco (film)
- Gary Cooper: Tom Brown
- Marlene Dietrich: Amy Jolly
- Adolphe Menjou: La Bessiere
- Ullrich main sr: . Adjutant Caesar
- Eve Southern Madame Caesar
- Francis McDonald: a sergeant
- Paul Porcasi: Lo Tinto
Morocco is an American romantic drama from director Josef von Sternberg from 1930 starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich in the leading roles.
Action
Amy Jolly arrives as a young nightclub singer in Morocco. The rich gentleman La Bessiere has been thrown on the crossing an eye on them and offers to help, but they refuse. You can get hold of a commitment and is celebrated by the audience stormy.
She learns the legionnaire Tom Brown know. When his adjutant him of infidelity with his wife suspected, Amy can clarify the situation. Tom promises to marry her, but she leaves and goes to the front. Disappointed, she accepts the marriage proposal of La Bessiere.
On the return of the troops they can not believe in his death and looking for him desperately. She finds Tom in a bar with another woman. Tom tries to convince Amy that he does not love her. As the Legionaries retire with their wives, she leaves La Bessiere and follows Tom into the desert to.
Reviews
" The brilliantly staged, memorable film lives occupied by the suggestive atmosphere of great feelings, their effect is visible in a number of refined details. "
" The film lives less of its somewhat clichéd and lachrymose plot than on the atmosphere of a great passion, an unconditional feeling that Sternberg evokes suggestive. For real highlight is the final scene, as Amy follows the abmarschierenden foreign legionnaires and laboriously plods along with other women through the desert sand. "
"With the seductive image force a silent film Sternberg continues his ars combinatoria in scene. He invents new Marlene; the problem was, he writes, " the little German housewife " in a cabaret singer with lascivious touch to transform. Top hat and tails become ingredients of the feminine, when she kisses one of the women in passing. Even in the moments of greatest devotion - eyelashes, shading of vision, slight turn of the head, as the careless stripping a Nightie - remains a trembling touch of self-irony exist ".
Background
The screenplay by Jules Furthman based on the novel Amy Jolly, the woman from Marrakech by Benno Vigny.
Director Josef von Sternberg worked after The Blue Angel with Marlene Dietrich together again, the same received an Oscar nomination for best actress for her first English language film. To speak was the scene in which she dressed as a man kissing another woman. The kiss was based on the assumption of a rose, which she then handed it to Gary Cooper. The censors were satisfied with this argument.
The film came in 1931 as the Paramount heart in flames in the rich German cinemas in 1935 and prohibited. In the 1981 television version broadcast as Morocco, Gary Cooper was the voice of Gerhard Garbers and Marlene Dietrich that of Karin Eickelmann tree.