A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
George Bancroft
Bill Roberts
Betty Compson
Mae
Olga Baclanova
Lou
Clyde Cook
'Sugar' Steve
Mitchell Lewis
Andy
Guy Oliver
The Crimp
May Foster
Mrs. Crimp
Lillian Worth
Steve's Girl
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Hymn Book Harry
Richard Alexander
Lou's Sweetheart (uncredited)
Director
Josef von Sternberg
Screenplay
Jules Furthman
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Paramount Pictures, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
CinemaSerf
June 6, 2022
This is a beautiful example of the film-makers craft. Josef von Sternberg and Harold Rosson have created a thing of aesthetic beauty coupled with an interesting - if not especially deep - character study of two people George Bancroft ("Bill") and Betty Compson ("Mae)". The camera loves both of them - and interestingly for the late 1920s, it is not shy in illustrating the beauty of the male physiqu...
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