Movies found: 6, viewing from 1 to 6
Jet Pilot
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jay C. Flippen, John Wayne, Ivan Triesault, Janet Leigh, Paul Fix, Roland Winters, Hans Conried
Directors: Josef von Sternberg
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. He falls in love with her, but she is scheming to lure him back to the USSR. But Shannon has a scheme of his own.
The Docks of New York
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Betty Compson, Mitchell Lewis, Gustav von Seyffertitz, George Bancroft, Clyde Cook, Guy Oliver, Olga Baclanova
Directors: Josef von Sternberg
Country: USA
Year: 1928
The ship on which Bill Roberts is a stoker has just put into port, giving the crew one night ashore. The ship's bad-tempered third engineer orders the stokers to clean up, while the engineer heads for a dockside bar, where he has a confrontation with the wife he had abandoned. Then, as Bill himself goes ashore, he sees a young woman attempt to drown herself. Bill dives in, saves her, and then, assisted by the engineer's wife, sees that she is cared for. Bill and the rescued woman begin to enjoy one another's company, but they must contend with the malice of the engineer, as well as a number of other complications.
Underworld (1927)
Genres: Crime, Romance, Drama
Starring: Fred Kohler, George Bancroft, Jerry Mandy, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon
Directors: Josef von Sternberg
Country: USA
Year: 1927
'Nobody helps me -- I help them!' boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed, handing over what will prove to be the best investment in his high-spending career: a thousand dollars that will put the literate 'Rolls Royce' of vagrants back on his feet. Living it up in the Twenties with the aid of cool but smouldering moll Feathers, the Bull lords it over the law and his rivals alike -- specifically big Buck Mulligan, whose floral-tributes business echoes that of a certain real-life Chicago gangster... Yet Feathers, prize possession and object of envy, proves his weak point; and in the end, Bull Weed will indeed come to need help from others, and mo...
Dishonored
Genres: Drama, War, Music
Starring: Warner Oland, Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Lew Cody, Barry Norton
Directors: Josef von Sternberg
Country: USA
Year: 1931
In 1915 Vienna, the widow of an Austrian soldier is approached to pass on sensitive information. She turns the man in instead but is then thanked by being forced to infiltrate the home of a high-ranking traitor by becoming his mistress.
The Shanghai Gesture
Genres: Drama, Film-Noir
Starring: Mikhail Rasumny, Victor Mature, Mike Mazurki, Rex Evans, Gene Tierney, Maria Ouspenskaya, Eric Blore
Directors: Josef von Sternberg
Country: USA
Year: 1941
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy Charteris, wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a large area of Shanghai, forcing Gin Sling to vacate by the coming Chinese New Year. Under orders from Gin Sling, who has found out Poppy is Charteris' daughter, the smarmy Doctor Omar leads Poppy deeper and deeper into an addiction to gambling and alcohol. Gin Sling, realizing that Charteris was her long-ago husband who she thinks abandoned her, plans her revenge by inviting Charteris to a Chinese New Year dinner p...
The Blue Angel (1930)
Genres: Musical, Drama
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Roland Varno, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt
Directors: Josef von Sternberg
Country: Germany
Year: 1930
Immanuel Rath, an old bachelor, is a professor at the town's university. When he discovers that some of his pupils often go into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola Lola, he comes there to confront them. But he is attracted to Lola. The next night he comes again--and does not sleep at home. This causes trouble at work and his life takes a downward spiral.