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The Devil Is a Woman

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6.3/10 • 66

1935-05-031h 20m

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Kiss me .. and I'll break your heart!

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted

Directors
Josef von Sternberg
Writters
Oran Schee, David Hertz
Editors
Oran Schee, David Hertz, Sam Winston

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  1. Marlene Dietrich

    Marlene Dietrich

    Concha Perez

  2. Lionel Atwill

    Lionel Atwill

    Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar

  3. Edward Everett Horton

    Edward Everett Horton

    Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'

  4. Alison Skipworth

    Alison Skipworth

    Senora Perez

  5. Cesar Romero

    Cesar Romero

    Antonio Galvan

  6. Don Alvarado

    Don Alvarado

    Morenito

  7. Tempe Pigott

    Tempe Pigott

    Tuerta (as Tempe Piggott)

  8. Francisco Moreno

    Francisco Moreno

    Alphonso (as Paco Moreno)

  9. Max Barwyn

    Max Barwyn

    Pablo (uncredited)

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talisencrw

Aug 5, 2016

9/10

Very few aesthetic delights of the post-Code era tantalize and linger long afterwards in the mind as much as films from the Marlene Dietrich/Josef Von Sternberg partnership, and this, thankfully kept in Dietrich's vault as it was the favourite of her films, is no exception. Though anyone who knows me will readily recall I prefer the twice-Oscar nominated (for 'Morocco' and 'Shanghai Express'), Viennese expert craftsman's silent pictures to those made with the sexpot, this saga of vengeance is also superlative and well worth both purchasing and re-watching. Paramount caved in to pressure by the Spanish government, who hated the way Pierre Louÿs' novel portrayed the Spanish police, and actually destroyed the original print. Thankfully Dietrich's fear that her favourite film would otherwise be lost meant it was extremely well-preserved, and I saw my copy as part of a superlative DVD boxed set of six of her films that I've had for a few years now.

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Original Language
English
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