About this title: The smokily erotic ambience of Josef Von Sternberg's silent Docks of New York is best appreciated on a big theatrical screen--but only if the available print is at the very least second-generation. George Bancroft plays a two-fisted ship's stoker on shore leave. He saves Betty Compson from committing suicide; though the girl displays little gratitude, the inebriated Bancroft impulsively marries her. After he sobers up, Bancroft is prepared to set sail and leave his new wife waiting for him...perhaps forever. The story is secondary to the virtuosity of the direction and camerawork (one scene ...
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Description: Good in good packaging. Former public library copy with library stamps/stickers. In original box. Tested/plays great. Box has some edgewear. NTSC; 30 min. A masterpiece from one of the greatest directors in film's infant years, Josef von Sternberg.; read more
Description: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, James Robertson Justice, Donald Houston, Suzanne... Very good in good packaging. 1954 Run time: 92. read more
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