Harry Kumel , Belgian director of Daughters of Darkness and Malpertuis, introduces two films by Josef von Sternberg.
Dishonored starring
Marlene Dietrich Victor McLaglen
Marlene Dietrich is X-27, a beautiful spy for the Austrian secret service, in this romantic thriller set in Vienna during the First World War. But her brilliant undercover career is endangered by the traitorous Lieutenant
Kranau ...
Screenplay by DANIEL N. RUBIN based on the story X-27 by JOSEF VON STERNBERG
Directed by JOSEF VON STERNBERG and at 11.40
Blonde Venus starring
Marlene Dietrich Herbert Marshall Cary Grant
In this melodrama of love and jealousy, Dietrich gives a magnetic performance as Helen, a Berlin stage performer, who marries an American, Ned Faraday. Some years after, Ned discovers he has radium poisoning. Helen's search for sufficient money to pay for the treatment that will save his life leads her to the stage of a New York nightclub - and to the wealthy and attractive Nick Townsend.
Screenplay by JULES FURTHMAN and S. K. LAUREN based on a story by JOSEF VON STERNBERG
Produced and directed by JOSEF VON STERNBERG
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