Directed by:
Josef von SternbergScreenplay:
John Dos PassosCast:
Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth, Cesar Romero, Don Alvarado, Stanley Price, Henry Roquemore, Charles Sellon (more)Plots(1)
Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich went out with a bang in their final film together, The Devil Is a Woman, a surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of flashbacks, Captain Costelar (Lionel Atwill) recounts to the young Antonio Galvan (Cesar Romero) the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez (Dietrich), warning his listener to gird himself against her charms. Despite his counsel, Galvan falls under Concha’s spell, leading to a violent denouement. Ever the ornate visual stylist, von Sternberg evokes Spanish culture with a touch of the luridly fantastic, further elevated by Travis Banton’s opulent costume design and award-winning cinematography by von Sternberg himself. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Marlene Dietrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Lionel Atwill
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Captain Blood (1935)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Edward Everett Horton
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Holiday (1938)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Alison Skipworth
UK
Best movies:
The Song of Songs (1933)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Becky Sharp (1935)
Cesar Romero
USA
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Tales of Manhattan (1942)
The Racers (1955)
Don Alvarado
USA
Best movies:
The Big Steal (1949)
Morning Glory (1933)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Stanley Price
USA
Best movies:
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
State of the Union (1948)
Henry Roquemore
USA
Best movies:
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Charles Sellon
USA
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The Monster (1925)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Donald Reed
Mexico
Best movies:
Midnight (1939)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Hank Mann
USA
Best movies:
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The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
John George
Syria
Best movies:
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The Killing (1956)
East of Eden (1955)
Edwin Maxwell
Ireland
Best movies:
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Tempe Pigott
UK
Best movies:
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Greed (1924)
Morgan Wallace
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Gaslight (1944)
Union Pacific (1939)
Lawrence Grant
UK
Best movies:
Ninotchka (1939)
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Eddie Borden
USA
Best movies:
The Red Pony (1949)
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The Flying Deuces (1939)
Constantine Romanoff
German Empire
Best movies:
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Kewpie Morgan
USA
Best movies:
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