Morocco

Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969 (film director.). Furthman, Jules, (screenwriter.). Turnbull, Hector, (film producer.). Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961 (actor.). Dietrich, Marlene, (actor.). Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963 (actor.). Vigny, Benno, 1889-1965 Motion picture adaptation of (work): Amy Jolly. (Added Author). Paramount Publix Corporation, (production company,, presenter.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern. (Cast).

Summary: Set in Morocco, the film navigates a labyrinth of melancholy and desire as the cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich), fleeing her former life, takes her act to the shores of North Africa, where she entertains the overtures of a wealthy man of the world (Menjou) while finding herself increasingly drawn to a strapping legionnaire with a shadowy past of his own (Gary Cooper).

Record details

ISBN: 1681434601
ISBN: 9781681434605
ISBN: 1681434628
ISBN: 9781681434629
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
videodisc
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from title screen ; statement of responsibility and crew credits partially from boxed set's accompanying book. Originally released as a motion picture in 1930. Based on the play Amy Jolly / Benno Vigny. Full screen (1.19:1 aspect ratio). Issued in a boxed set: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood, which includes an accompanying book (80 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm). Special features: 2014 interview with film scholar Janet Bergstrom discussing the production of Morocco; Weimar on the Pacific, a new documentary about Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg; Brief interview with Deutsche Kinemathek curator Silke Ronneburg on the "real" Amy Jolly; The legionnaire and the lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of an adaptation of Morocco starring Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Lee Garmes ; editor, Sam Winston ; music, Karl Hajos.
Participant or Performer Note:	Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern.
System Details Note:	Blu-ray; region A; LPCM 1.0; requires Blu-ray player.
Language Note:	In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).