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Judgment at Nuremberg ***** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 3.503

Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]

Mar, 26

Angel *** (1937, Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 3356

Producer- director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1937 sincere and over-earnest love triangle comedy drama stars Marlene Dietrich as Lady Maria ‘Angel’ Barker, a woman who is neglected by her English diplomat husband Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall) and […]

Feb, 14

The Devil Is a Woman ***** (1935, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton) – Classic Movie Review 3122

Director Josef von Sternberg’s exotically beautiful 1935 romantic drama stars Marlene Dietrich in her last movie partnership with her real-life Svengali-figure. It is based on Pierre Louys’s story of obsessive love, La Femme et Le […]

Dec, 02

Shanghai Express ***** (1932, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette) – Movie Review 2950

Director Josef von Sternberg’s richly enjoyable 1932 romantic adventure again stars his protégée Marlene Dietrich, who appears on her finest form as a notorious ‘lady of the sleeping cars’, Shanghai Lil. The infamously loose woman […]

Oct, 03

The Scarlet Empress ***** (1934, Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C Aubrey Smith, Edward Van Sloan, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 2936

Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in The Scarlet Empress, producer-director Josef von Sternberg’s spectacular and thrilling 1934 visual explosion of a historical romantic biopic. Forget screen-writer Manuel Komroff’s average sort of tale, which is allegedly […]

Oct, 03

Rancho Notorious **** (1952, Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2598

Director Fritz Lang’s splendidly baroque and brooding 1952 Western tale of frontier revenge is lit up by a mesmerising, breathtakingly camp star turn from a smouldering Marlene Dietrich (still looking stunning at 50). She plays Altar […]

Jun, 14

Witness for the Prosecution **** (1957, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O’Connor, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2576

Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]

Jun, 09

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