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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC2909BD | The Criterion Collection | (disc)CC2908BD | The Criterion Collection | (boxed set)Language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 931.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]Edition: Blu-ray special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (80 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image
text

Media type:

video
unmediated

Carrier type:

videodisc
volume

ISBN:

1681434628
9781681434605

Related works:

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Vigny, Benno, 1889-1965. Amy Jolly

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PN1997 .M67 2018

Production credits:

Director of photography, Lee Garmes ; editor, Sam Winston ; music, Karl Hajos.

Cast: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern.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).

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00302 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1605030677X

Originally released as a motion picture in 1930.

Title from title screen ; statement of responsibility and crew credits partially from boxed set's accompanying book.

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.

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).

Blu-ray; region A; LPCM 1.0.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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