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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- IN
- DVD007362
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Docks of New York, The
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Von Sternberg, Josef
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Criterion Collection, 2019
- Title:
- Docks of New York, The
- Director:
- Von Sternberg, Josef
- Production Co:
- Paramount
- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
76 minutes.
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1928
- Publisher:
- Criterion Collection, 2019
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Romance, Drama, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Roughneck stoker Bill Roberts (George Bancroft) gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for Mae (Betty Compson), a wise and weary dance-hall girl, in Josef von Sternberg’s evocative portrait of working-class waterfront folk. Fog-enshrouded cinematography by Harold Rosson (The Wizard of Oz), expressionist set design by Hans Dreier (Sunset Boulevard), and sensual performances by Bancroft and Compson make this one of the legendary director’s finest works, and one of the most exquisitely crafted films of the era.
Supplemental materials: two scores, one by Robert Israel and another by Donald Sosin and Joanne Seaton; 1968 Swedish television interview with Josef vonSternberg; a booklet featuring essays by critic Geoffrey O’Brien, scholar Anton Kaes, and author and critic Lucy Sante; notes on the scores by the composers; Ben Hecht’s original treatment for Underworld; and an excerpt from von Sternberg’s 1965 autobiography, Fun in a Chinese Laundry, on actor Emil Jannings, available at checkout.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |