7.2
The Docks of New York (1928)
September 16, 19281h 16mEN
6.9
115 votes
Overview
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
Director
Josef von SternbergWhere to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Free
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
No Language
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
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7.0This 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 physique as well as the beauty of both Compson and Olga Baclanova ("Lou"). The story isn't really the main feature of the film: "Bill" is a stoker on the docks where he encounters a potential suicide victim…
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