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	George Bancroft	Bill Roberts
	Betty Compson	Mae Roberts
	Olga Baclanova	Lou -- Wife of Andy
	Clyde Cook	Bill's Pal
	Mitchell Lewis	Andy - the Third Engineer
	Gustav von Seyffertitz	Hymn Book Harry
	Richard Alexander	Lou's Sweetheart
	May Foster	Mrs. Crimp
	George Irving	Night Court Judge
	John Kelly	Sailor Barfly
	Charles McMurphy	Policeman
	Guy Oliver	The Crimp
	Bob Reeves	Court Bailiff
	Lillian Worth	Andy's Girl

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Director	Josef Von Sternberg
Writer	Jules Furthman, John Monk SAUNDERS, Julian JOHNSON
Producer	J.G. Bachmann, Josef Von Sternberg
Musician	Robert Israel, Donald Sosin
Photography	Harold Rosson

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Christmas 2019 gift from Beth
Part of 3-film boxset.

THREE-DISC SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
High-definition digital restorations of all three films
Six scores: by Robert Israel for all three films, Alloy Orchestra for Underworld and The Last Command, and Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton for The Docks of New York
Two video essays from 2010, one by UCLA film professor Janet Bergstrom and the other by film scholar Tag Gallagher
Swedish television interview from 1968 with director Josef von Sternberg
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Geoffrey O’Brien, scholar Anton Kaes, and author and critic Luc Sante; notes on the scores by the composers; Ben Hecht’s original treatment for Underworld; and an excerpt from von Sternberg’s 1965 auto­biography, Fun in a Chinese Laundry, on actor Emil Jannings
Covers by F. Ron Miller

Roughneck stoker Bill Roberts (George Bancroft) gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for Mae (Betty Compson), a wise and weary dance-hall girl, in Josef von Sternberg’s evocative portrait of working-class waterfront folk. Fog-enshrouded cinematography by Harold Rosson (The Wizard of Oz), expressionist set design by Hans Dreier (Sunset Boulevard), and sensual performances by Bancroft and Compson make this one of the legendary director’s finest works, and one of the most exquisitely crafted films of the era.

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