Josef von Sternberg — Director (28)
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The Town (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Town
director: Josef von Sternberg actor: Myron McCormick
The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in microcosm by Madison, Indiana. It was created primarily for exhibition abroad, to provide international audiences a more well-rounded view of America, and was therefore produced in more than 20 translations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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The Salvation Hunters (1925) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Salvation Hunters
director: Josef von Sternberg actor: 乔治·K-阿瑟 / Georgia Hale …
other title: 求救的人们 / Cazadores de almas …
A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering. Overhead, a dredge hauls up mud and trash from the nearby seabed-- the same mud and trash from the day before. They finally decide to leave for the city to seek fulfillment, only to encounter further privation, destitution, temptation.
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Macao (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Macao
director: 约瑟夫·冯·斯登堡 / 尼古拉斯·雷 actor: 罗伯特·米彻姆 / 简·拉塞尔 …
other title: 澳门 / Le Paradis des mauvais garçons …
A sultry night club singer, a man who has also traveled to many exotic ports and a salesman meet aboard ship on the 45-mile trip from Hong Kong to Macao. The singer is quickly hired by an American expatriate who runs the biggest casino in Macao and has a thriving business in converting hot jewels into cash. Her new boss thinks one of her traveling companions is a cop. One is -- but not the one the boss suspects.
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Thunderbolt (1929) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Thunderbolt
director: 约瑟夫·冯·斯登堡 / 朱尔斯·福瑟曼 actor: 乔治·班克罗夫特 / 菲伊·雷 …
other title: 霹雳 / 轰天雷 …
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Morgan, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Morgan for romancing his girl.
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The Devil Is a Woman (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Devil Is a Woman
★ 7.8 (6 ratings) director: 约瑟夫·冯·斯登堡 actor: 玛琳·黛德丽 / 莱昂内尔·阿特威尔 …
other title: 魔鬼是女人 / 玫瑰多刺(港) …
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
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Jet Pilot (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Jet Pilot
director: 约瑟夫·冯·斯登堡 actor: 约翰·韦恩 / 珍妮特·利 …
other title: 密战计划 / 九霄争霸 …
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.
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It (1927)
It
★ 6.5 (6 ratings) director: 克拉伦斯·Ｇ·巴杰尔 / 约瑟夫·冯·斯登堡 actor: 克拉拉·鲍 / 安东尼奥·莫雷诺 …
other title: 攀上枝头 / 它 …
Shopgirl Betty Lou has designs on Cyrus Waltham, the handsome owner of the department store where she works. Waltham, though, doesn't even know Betty Lou is around. In hopes of attracting Waltham's attention, she accepts a date with his best friend, Monty, under the condition that they dine at the Ritz, where Waltham also has a dinner date that evening. Her plan works and in no time at all she and Waltham are contemplating marriage. The romance cools when a newspaper reporter mistakenly writes a story depicting Betty Lou as an unwed mother.
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The Docks of New York (1928) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Docks of New York
★ 7.2 (13 ratings) director: 约瑟夫·冯·斯登堡 actor: 乔治·班克罗夫特 / 贝蒂·康姆逊 …
other title: 纽约船坞 / 뉴욕의 선창 …
The ship on which Bill Roberts is a stoker has just put into port, giving the crew one night ashore. The ship's bad-tempered third engineer orders the stokers to clean up, while the engineer heads for a dockside bar, where he has a confrontation with the wife he had abandoned. Then, as Bill himself goes ashore, he sees a young woman attempt to drown herself. Bill dives in, saves her, and then, assisted by the engineer's wife, sees that she is cared for. Bill and the rescued woman begin to enjoy one another's company, but they must contend with the malice of the engineer, as well as a number of other complications.