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1935 (Turkey)
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Tagline:
Kiss me .. and I'll break your heart!
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Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone...
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Dietrich, A Devious & Dangerous Delight
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Marlene Dietrich | ... | Concha Perez | |
| Lionel Atwill | ... | Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar | |
| Edward Everett Horton | ... | Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito' | |
| Alison Skipworth | ... | Senora Perez | |
| Cesar Romero | ... | Antonio Galvan | |
| Don Alvarado | ... | Morenito (bullfighter) | |
| Tempe Pigott | ... | Tuerta | |
| Francisco Moreno | ... | Alphonso (Paquito's secretary) (as Paco Moreno) | |
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| Hank Mann | ... | Foreman on snowbound train (scenes deleted) | |
| Joel McCrea | ... | Antonio Galvan (replaced by Cesar Romero) (scenes deleted) | |
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Caprice Espagno (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
Germany:75 min | USA:79 min | Portugal:80 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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Portugal:17 |
Portugal:(Banned) (original rating) |
UK:A (original rating) (1935) |
UK:U (re-rating) (2006) |
France:U |
Portugal:M/12 |
USA:Approved (PCA #538)
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"(If It Isn't Pain) Then It Isn't Love" by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin was recorded for this movie but cut from the final print.
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Quotes:
Senora Perez:
How I worry when I see my daughter leave in the morning.
Concha Perez: How can you say that, Mother, when you sleep all day?
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Concha Perez: How can you say that, Mother, when you sleep all day?
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Referenced in Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003) (V)
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Three Sweethearts Have I
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A young Spanish radical in old Sevilla learns that THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN, when he falls hopelessly in love with a mysterious female.
Mesmerizing & hypnotic, this is a film which arouses all the senses. Dreamlike in its visuals & nightmarish of plot, it presents imagery so persuasive as to be practically palpable. Director Josef von Sternberg & writer John Dos Passos constructed a miniature madhouse for the mind, in which the viewer gladly finds himself consigned.
Fascinating, coy, deceptive, utterly alluring, Marlene Dietrich dominates the film as an icy-hearted harlot who strews her pathway with the broken bodies & wasted lives of the men she's betrayed. With heavily lidded eyes peering out of her disturbingly beautiful face, she is the very picture of sardonic seduction. Wisely, the film allows her a moment of amusement (for the viewer), letting her perfectly sum up her philosophy in the comic song Three Sweethearts Have I.'
Dietrich's two leading men are both excellent. Lionel Atwill, sadly ignored today, once again exhibits the depth of his acting talent; Hollywood's propensity to place him in horror films often obscured his abilities. Here, he shows us a man fully aware of his complete degradation. Cesar Romero, in one of the finest roles of his early career, more than adequately carries on the tradition of the Latin Lover, but with a twist - here is a romantic hero who is not strong enough to escape from the web of the female spider.
Peevish & pompous, Edward Everett Horton is thoroughly amusing as a flustered Spanish bureaucrat.
Two wonderful English character actresses enliven the proceedings in small roles: Alison Skipworth as Dietrich's disreputable matriarch and Tempe Pigott as an old one-eyed harridan.
Movie mavens will spot Edwin Maxwell as the manager of the cigarette factory and Charles Sellon as a professional letter writer, both uncredited.
Von Sternberg created a masterwork of cinematic symbolism, with innuendo so rife it is incredible it passed the Production Code. In every way, the film is a worthy follow-up to his previous collaboration with Dietrich, the orgiastic SCARLETT EMPRESS (1934).