Release Date: July 3, 2018
Prices and Links:
Criterion - $99.96
Amazon - $124.95
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Writers: Jules Furthman, Josef von Sternberg, Eleanor McGeary, Pierre Louÿs, S.K. Lauren
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Warner Oland, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Morgan Wallace
Disc Features
Prices and Links:
Criterion - $99.96
Amazon - $124.95
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Writers: Jules Furthman, Josef von Sternberg, Eleanor McGeary, Pierre Louÿs, S.K. Lauren
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Warner Oland, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Morgan Wallace
- Spine #930
Disc Features
- New 2K or 4K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
- New interviews with film scholars Janet Bergstrom and Homay King; director Josef von Sternberg’s son, Nicholas; Deutsche Kinemathek curator Silke Ronneburg; and costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis
- New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich’s German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg
- New documentary on Dietrich’s status as a feminist icon, featuring film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White
- The Legionnaire and the Lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and actor Clark Gable
- New video essay by critics Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López
- The Fashion Side of Hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and costume designer Travis Banton
- Television interview with Dietrich from 1971
- PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Imogen Sara Smith, Gary Giddins, and Farran Smith Nehme