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Dishonored (1931)

1931 · Feature film · 91 min · dir. Josef von Sternberg

Can a Woman Kill a Man With Whom She Has Known a Night of Love?

  • Drama
  • spy film
  • Romance

Synopsis

Dishonored is a 1931 American pre-Code Paramount Pictures romantic spy film directed and edited by Josef von Sternberg, who also cowrote the film with Daniel N. Rubin. The film stars Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz and Warner Oland. Costume design was provided by Travis Banton in one of his several collaborations with Dietrich.

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Details

Director
Josef von Sternberg
Writer
Josef von Sternberg
Cinematography
Lee Garmes
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Released
1931-04-04
Running time
91 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · TRAGEDY · BornBohemian · 2023-12-03

is the quintessence of Marlene and her films...of life... She's the hard-nosed surly soul in the backdrop of the world's picturesque paradigm; a dichotomy, like the world itself. But then, how does any real life worth living fit into it– the paradigm, unadulterated– without acknowledging it's Kafka-esque inanities, ironies, its obsequiousness and outright drudgery– the ever so often, I'm right, truly justified and right, this side of this conflict because, well, I so happen to be on it ... accepting my, our, libertine rights as so and theirs as propaganda... Tragic is modern man more than…

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