Morocco
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Year Released: 1930
Rating: 1.5
Singer with a past (Marlene Dietrich) meets with soldier with a past (Gary Cooper) - their pasts cancel each other out, and you can pretty much figure out what happens next. Adolphe Menjou is inadequate as a potential third-party to their courtship (no matter how rich or nattily dressed he is), so only time prevents the two of them from getting together sooner. Von Sternberg has this odd habit of cutting away from a given scene in the middle but the camera truly does love Dietrich, and her song-and-dance numbers (not to mention that all-knowing look in her eye) are what have kept this one alive all these years.
