By: the bricabrac man
I love this crazy, lurid movie -- it's one of the DVDs I delight in lending out to unsuspecting friends. It's largely because of this role that Gene Tierney is my favorite old-school Hollywood femme...
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Just watched the first three. I didn't intend to but they are quite compelling! Thanks for the links. A terrific film and hypnotic actors.
View ArticleBy: floam
filthy light thief: I googled and got a few results. Here's the original source, via Google Books: As he wrote in his autobiography Confessions from a Chinese Laundry: "Most of the film — though this...
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Additional trivia: Gene Tierney's stunning dresses were designed by Oleg Cassini (perhaps best known for creating Jacqueline Kennedy's state wardrobe) - whom she married the year this film was released...
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There's a weird note on the Turner Classic Movies page for this film, which says "[von Sternberg] was so physically disabled, he did most of his work while lying on a cot." He lived until December...
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I watched it recently. I don't know about all the praise, von Sternberg never impressed me as a director, but Victor Mature was excellent here, his best work next to After the Fox... worth seeing for...
View ArticleJosef von Sternberg's "The Shanghai Gesture"
The other places are like kindergartens compared with this. It smells so incredibly evil! I didn't think such a place existed except in my own imagination. It has a ghastly familiarity like a...
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