woman to woman ( 1929 film )
director fritz lang (on the right), on the set of his film woman in the moon, 1929 .
that premiered 15 october 1929 at the ufa - palast am zoo cinema in berlin to an audience of 2, 000 .
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woman with an editing bench is available for dvd purchase and vimeo streaming through both ronin films and kanopy. it’s screening this wednesday and thursday at brisbane international film festival and 2nd september at cinewest’s 4th women media arts and film festival. watch a trailer here .
woman in the moon is a great visual and musical experience. a fabulous treat for space fans. destination moon is much better - known among american audiences, but it feels like a rerun compared to frau im mond. what was visionary in 1929 is merely a technical exercise in 1950 .
an unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted .
a young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past .
kraszna - krausz, a. (2004) .
frau in mond (the woman in the moon )
. in rickman, gregg. the science fiction film reader. limelight editions. pp .
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she caused brother to fight brother in the war of police vs. the
mobs
( print ad - owosso argus - press, (( owosso, mich .) ) 25 october 1929 )
in this sense, pearlman’s output reveals an important function for creative practice in universities: to test the theories that are developed in scholarship about how meaning is created in film, images and sound. the film resulting from this process is very different in feel and form from the short films coming out of screen australia’s short film funding programs, and has screened at international film festivals, been collected for research and preservation by 10 international film archives and acquired for educational distribution by ronin films .
a blue - collar worker on new york' s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide .
worked as an advisor on this movie. he had originally intended to build a working rocket for use in the film, but time and technology prevented this from happening. the film was popular among the rocket scientists in
. bach calls the film “the first to capture her sympathetic eroticism and aura of ambiguity and mystery …. this is the film in which marlene found ‘dietrich, ’ though she may not have known she had. ”
one of the earliest of over 700 paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to mca / universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by mca ever since .
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directed by fritz lang (third from right), the silent film
woman in the moon
( 1929) is considered one of the first serious science fiction films and invented the countdown before the launch of a rocket. many of the basics of space travel were presented to a mass audience for the first time .
opened in april 1929, the critics were clamoring for sound. “we see the lips, they say something, they move, [ but ] we hear nothing, ” one wrote of the little - seen film. about dietrich’s performance, critics were brutal: “expressionless malice in every look, every movement studied, and all of it without personality, ” wrote another. when the film opened in new york in september as
after taking evening classes at the university of london, alfred hitchcock joined forces with lasky players as a title designer. in this film, he was given the opportunity to write the screenplay. not the most interesting film to watch, but it just goes to show that a director can also write their own material .
woman in the moon (frau im mond) is one of fritz lang’s forgotten films. never finding the critical acclaim that other lang pictures did, this film has mostly been relegated to the annals of historical rocketry films, sandwiched between georges méliès' whimsical a trip to the moon and the post - v2, pre - sputnik destination moon, penned by science - fiction great robert heinlein. woman in the moon is perhaps best - known for having popularized the 3 - 2 - 1 - liftoff countdown .
a key scene in the film shows svilova (leanna walsman) and vertov (richard james allen) working furiously and collaboratively: cutting and recutting celluloid strips of film, scrawling diagrams that block movement and key plot points, and redrafting scenes together, on - the - fly. from two minds a new kind of film emerges, man with a movie camera .
( 1939). when she died in 1992, obituaries hailed her as the biggest international film star germany ever produced .
with a dozen oriental beauties in his harem, this persian prince loved only one woman - white and married to an englishman. she said
no
for years, but when her husband proved faithless, she too came to join the harem .
when the nazis began working on war rockets, they decided the movie' s rockets were too close to the truth. to preserve secrecy, they had the models destroyed and the film withdrawn from release .
kay hoog wants to stop the organisation
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watching woman in the moon will send shivers up the spine of the space enthusiast. the science depicted in the film has an impressive pedigree — the technical sections are attributed to dr. hermann oberth, the father of german rocketry and mentor of dr. werner von braun, creator of the v - 2 ballistic missile and later head of the saturn rocket program .
“it can’t be just a good film, ” says pearlman of her approach to making cinematic projects within the university structure. “it has to make a new contribution to knowledge. so there’s been a whole lot of research questions that have led to woman with an editing bench, and one is around distributed cognition. it says that you don’t just think in your brain, you think in your brain and your body and in the world, and that cognition is distributed and felt and intuitive, and it’s not just reasoning: it’s thought and action together. so i’ve been looking at film editing as an instance of distributed cognition. ”
, henri marries a rich girl to save the family business. about to depart for his honeymoon, he catches a glimpse of a woman through a frosted train window. their eyes lock. it is the film’s first image of dietrich, who is traveling to an alpine resort with her lover, and it sets in motion all that follows. dietrich’s impassive gaze seduces with its mystery and stillness and makes credible henri’s impulsive decision to follow her. she reveals nothing but still projects a powerful eroticism .
, 1930), when in fact dietrich herself had been carefully crafting her public persona long before von sternberg. by 1929, she was already a star of stage and screen in germany, and her first fully realized femme fatale was not the blue angel’s lola lola, but stascha in
strangely enough, it consists of one great piece of visionary cinema, sandwiched between a rather pedestrian plot. i guess you can’t make money in 1929 with a film that deals only with spaceflight. the meat consists of the launch and flight to the moon, scientifically accurate to the limits of 1920s knowledge, almost documentary in nature. the viewer runs through the whole sequence of emotions that accompanied the apollo moonshots of the 1960s and 1970s: thrill in anticipation of the launch, wonder at weightlessness, and wistfulness as the pioneers watch the earth grow smaller .
the english translation was done by ingrid scheib - rothbart, who is very active on new york' s film scene and is a board member of the anthology film archives. the translation reads quite smoothly and naturally. however, she is clearly out of her element when it comes to engineering terminology, translating it word - by - word and not making very much sense :
there' s also an effective score by silent - film accompanist john mirsalis on the kino dvd, making for an engrossing silent film experience that deserves to have a glittering proscenium arch over it in a movie palace. in space, mirsalis' astronomical score conveys mystery and wonderment, with vocal and instrumental accompaniment (both synthesized) providing an effective backdrop to mirsalis’ own piano playing. and in the build - up to launch, the score blasts out triumphantly with drums and brass .
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directed by fritz lang frames in this review are taken from the kino dvd which is © 1929 friedrich wilhelm murnau stiftung, renewed by notice of intent to enforce a copyright 1996 under the uruguay round agreement act by the friedrich - wilhelm - murnau - stiftung successor of ufa, english translation © 2004 kino international corp, licensed from transit films gmbh on behalf of the f. w. murnau foundation, wiesbaden to catch misspellings in web searches: frau im monde
where woman with an editing bench differs from most other new short films is that it also qualifies as an original contribution to scholarly thought, having been produced through macquarie university’s creative ecologies lab, a haven within the academy for around 20 artist - scholars working in dance, performance, music, creative non - fiction and film. “woman with an editing bench is a creative research output at macquarie university, which put substantial funding into it as well as providing the studio, camera, the lights, the technical facilities, ” says pearlman. “where i teach screen production is the old aftrs building. so we have these fantastic, world - class facilities for creative research and practice. parts of the facilities are reserved for the student and staff researchers. ”
: constance is outside. will you go and talk to her? it was only honorable to bring her along .
once they get to the far side of the moon, mannfeldt and turner prove mannfeldt' s theory that there is gold on the moon. they struggle in a cave, and mannfeldt falls to his death in a crevasse. turner attempts to hijack the rocket, and in the struggle, he is shot and killed. gunfire damages the oxygen tanks, and they come to the grim realization that there is not enough oxygen for all to make the return trip. one person must remain on the moon. (in this film, the moon has a breathable atmosphere on its far side, per the theories of peter andreas hansen, who is mentioned near the beginning of the film. )
for its time, the oberth - penned sections of woman in the moon represent the forefront of scientific knowledge in rocketry and astronomy. there is a reference to an earlier unmanned probe, which set off a giant magnesium flare on the moon to signal its arrival. the american dr. robert goddard proposed a similar idea in 1916, to much ridicule from the press. the film gives the correct translunar velocity: 11000 meters / second. the rocket is even a three - stage rocket, just like the saturn v. en - route course corrections are performed with the aid of two bicycle wheels arranged at right angles, serving as a gyroscope .
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in 1926, dietrich had her first singing role in the revue from mouth to mouth, which proved to be a career changer. the actress in the leading role of mistress of ceremonies got sick, and dietrich went on in her place. it led to a small but showy role as a chorus girl in the vienna production of the american hit broadway and an important part in the film
pearlman’s own path through academia is that of an artist - scholar. she came to australia from the us as a dancer, but “pretty quickly realised that my entire cultural context and history in new york was not going to work here. i retrained and did two masters degrees in editing and production and a doctor of creative arts in about seven years. ” the book resulting from her doctorate, cutting rhythms: shaping the film edit, is in its second edition through focus press, and pearlman is now a lecturer teaching filmmaking in macquarie’s screen practices and production course, after having spent six years at aftrs as head of screen studies. continuous throughout all her work is the idea that a well - edited film is a film that moves well .
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sharp photography, yes, but the plot moves along too slowly at 24 frames per second. we don’t even see the rocket until an hour into the film, and this is about thirty minutes too long for the plot to hold together. the camera often holds on the actors for long periods of time to get both the action and the follow - through, and it would’ve been much better to cut to intertitle to speed things up. fortunately, there is some eye candy for the viewers to look at while trudging through the plot. the print quality is excellent, and the sets are tastefully decorated. the characters are smartly attired and lit glamorously in classic studio fashion .
undaunted, dietrich continued to put those distracting legs to good use, dancing in the cabaret shows that were ubiquitous in postwar berlin. not satisfied with being just another chorus girl, dietrich decided in 1922 to enroll in max reinhardt’s prestigious deutsches theaterschule. although she claimed to have auditioned for reinhardt himself, it wasn’t true. according to steven bach’s well - researched biography ,
for additional conflict, there are
five of the richest and cleverest heads who wish to keep the gold reserve of the earth under their control .
they learn of the project and send a representative, who
asks
to be added to the journey. and, while we' re at it, let' s throw in a little boy who' s
devoted [ his ] entire life to moon research
by reading comic books, and the professor' s pet mouse, who naturally has to be taken into space. after a bunch of predictable things happen to these caricatures, we are relieved to finally encounter the visionary part of the film, which takes us from launching to landing. on the moon, they find gold, and all the tensions erupt into a predictable climax and a rather fun denouement .
lang doesn' t try for a deeply psychological film here, playing much of the plot for comedy. for example, the chicken dinner that helius begins and the hungry prof. manfeldt ends up finishing. indeed, none of the conflict in the film produces much tension. the bankers' agent may look big and sinister, but he’s actually rather mild - mannered. the wisp - of - a - plot is treated by lang as an excuse for sharp photography and gleeful moments .
the spectacular source print shows through to the kino dvd. the interlacing is somewhat annoying, and there is some chroma noise around the text edges. the rainbow effect comes through particularly strongly in the animated schematic of the spacecraft trajectory, as well as other places where digitally - generated subtitles are superimposed over original film footage .
german director fritz lang is known for one particular science fiction film: metropolis. elements from that that futuristic masterpiece can be found in many later works, such as blade runner (the androids), the fifth element (that breathtakingly frenetic futuristic city traffic), and 2001: a space odyssey (the theme of man and machine' s symbiotic development). there are biblical and classical allusions aplenty, as well as some of the most startling imagery to come out of the silent film era. and there’s also a bit of lost - and - found cachet from having been cut to pieces and then painstakingly put back together again decades later .
in other words, pearlman found svilova’s blueprint. “in the creative process, i’m embodying svilova’s process, i’m thinking with her thinking. so my claim is that woman with an editing bench recuperates her thoughts and puts them onscreen and that’s the new knowledge it contributes. the filmmaking has absolutely confirmed my hypothesis that editing is an instance of distributed cognition. ” the lessons learned in the process of crafting her film have now created new pedagogical tools that pearlman builds into her teaching in the university’s screen studies course. she’s since written a book chapter and several peer - reviewed papers on the subject of editing as distributed cognition, and the research is ongoing, with further films to come .
depressed by the bad domestic reviews, dietrich threw herself into work. she completed two more silent films before returning to the stage in another revue, where josef von sternberg saw her in september 1929 and knew he had found his lola lola. at first, dietrich appeared disinterested, telling von sternberg that she had made only three films (she had made 17) and that she photographed badly. but once the camera rolled, she was transformed. her insolence and energy in the screen test confirmed von sternberg’s instinct about her, and she left for hollywood immediately after
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the climax of the film is the rocket launch. this is rather early for a climax, but it’s also rather late considering how uninteresting the framing plot actually is. (which is why i’ll describe the launch first and the rest of the plot later. )
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, the new york times critic was more impressed: “ [ it ] possesses the kind of direction that makes american film magnates cable contracts abroad …. in addition, it boasts of a noteworthy performer in the person of fritz kortner, and a rare garboesque beauty in marlene dietrich. ”
the film was based on a notorious novel called
the green hat
, but the hays office wouldn' t allow the book to be filmed because it featured the use of heroin and a man kills himself on his wedding night because he' s suffering from syphilis, neither of which could be touched on at that time. mgm thought it would be a gold mine once past the censors, but by the time the title and character names had been changed and the story line altered, it bore little resemblance to the book. the bridegroom now kills himself because of his embezzling. while drinking on screen was forbidden because of prohibition, jeffry is hardly seen without a whiskey glass in his hand, but the fact that drink finally kills him and that the film was set in england is probably what persuaded the censors to let that by .
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the film is a melodrama with scientific speculation. helius (willy fritsch) is an entrepreneur with an interest in space travel. he seeks out professor mannfeldt (klaus pohl), a visionary who has written a treatise on the likelihood of finding gold on the moon, only to be ridiculed by his peers. helius recognizes the value of mannfeldt' s work, but a gang of evil businessmen have also taken an interest in mannfeldt' s theories .
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helius and windegger draw straws to see who must stay and windegger loses. seeing windegger' s anguish, helius decides to drug windegger and friede with a last drink together and take windegger' s place, letting windegger return to earth with friede. friede senses that something is in the wine. she pretends to drink and then retires to the compartment where her cot is located, closes and locks the door. windegger drinks the wine, becoming sedated. helius makes gustav his confidant and the new pilot for the ship. helius counts down the time for the ship' s liftoff from a distance away. he watches it depart and a stricken look crosses his face as he realizes that he is alone on the moon. as he lowers his head and resignedly starts to move towards the survival camp originally prepared for windegger, helius discovers that friede has decided to stay with him on the moon. he throws his arms wide like a child seeking to be held and friede runs to him. they embrace and helius weeps into her shoulder while friede strokes his hair and whispers words of comfort to him .
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for pearlman’s research, that meant asking: how does the editor think through the process of editing? “and how does the film think with the editor and how does it change? the editor doesn’t make any decisions apart from the filmed material. the thinking is integrated with sourcing, selecting, trimming, composing — it’s thinking with the material, it’s thinking in practice .
an altruistic department - store owner hires ex - convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex - convicts in a plan to rob the store .
, had a personal interest in science fiction. when returning to germany in the late 1950s he sold his extensive collection of
david compton leaves his expecting french girl - friend louise boucher, a dancer at the moulin rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in london. louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. she becomes a famous dancer under the name deloryse but falls gravely ill. one night, as david is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. when she learns that david is married to another woman, louise turns her son in the care of david' s new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow .
, which deals with the v - 2 rockets, refers to the movie, along with several other classic german silent films .
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the plot is rather silly. promising young professor manfeldt claims that the far side of the moon has an atmosphere and riches of gold (see, it' s on the far side, so nobody really knows). he is ridiculed and winds up destitute, but mentors young tycoon wolf helius, who is heading up a great aeronautical enterprise building a rocket to the moon. helius is in love with friede velten, a beautiful blonde studying astronomy at the university (though she never demonstrates her scientific knowledge on film). but the most cinematic type of love is the unrequited type, so naturally friede is engaged to helius' engineering associate hans windegger (a hardheaded engineer, who becomes panicky after they launch) .
a huge dietrich fan, adolf hitler tried to woo her back in the years just before world war ii. he promised to make her queen of third reich cinema, but she refused, staying in the states where she showed a flair for comedy in films such as ernst lubitsch’s
many of the mission details differ from the actual apollo missions, largely due to the limits of scientific knowledge at the time. the amount of space in the spacecraft certainly is overoptimistic, although this can be attributed to production needs. it is rather strange that the spacecraft launches from a water tank, but i speculatively attribute that to a mistranslation in the english intertitles (see below). there' s talk of having one side of the spacecraft be light and the other one dark, so as to control solar heating. this sounds logical enough, except that apollo actually rotated (
barbeque mode
) to distribute the solar heating. here, basic science doesn' t foresee later engineering cleverness .
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the recording camera are linked to a
clockwork
and has three
mirror teleobjectives .
isn’t this a
chronometer
and “objectives for a reflecting telescope? ”
“i started looking at the historical record of dziga vertov and his editor elizaveta svilova through the lens of distributed cognition. using the film man with a movie camera, my claim is that i can use svilova’s techniques to reveal her thoughts. dziga vertov is well documented. he gave interviews, he wrote a lot, you can have a career as a vertov scholar. but svilova’s thoughts are virtually undocumented. but fortunately what we do have is man with a movie camera. we can see what her processes are — literally what actions she was taking as an editor, and can say, that’s her thinking. i brought her clips into my editing software and analysed them frame by frame, looking for her sense of rhythm and juxtaposition, the structures she designs, the way she shaped the flow of the story, the strobing technique that was so hard to achieve back then [ with analogue technologies ]. ”
meanwhile, helius' s assistant windegger (gustav von wangenheim) has announced his engagement to helius' s other assistant, friede (gerda maurus). this is disconcerting to helius, who secretly loves friede, so he avoids their engagement party. he is mugged on the way home from his meeting with mannfeldt by henchmen of the evil businessmen, commanded by an american ,
the man who calls himself walter turner ,
( fritz rasp) as stated in the opening credits. they steal the research that professor mannfeldt had entrusted to him and also burgle helius' s home, taking other valuable material. they then present him with an ultimatum: they know he is planning a voyage to the moon; either he includes them in the project, or they will sabotage it and destroy his rocket, which is also named friede. reluctantly, helius agrees to their terms .
p. s. in reality, it cost far more to obtain the apollo moon rocks than their weight in gold. the apollo program cost $ 25 billion from 1961 to 1972 and brought back 842 pounds of moon rocks, for a cost of $ 2 million per troy ounce. gold was selling for about $ 60 per troy ounce in 1972 .
the earlier unmanned rocket is referred to as a
register
rocket, with
register
cameras. how about a
survey
rocket instead, with
recording
cameras ?
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because the spaceship is too light to stand freely, it is submerged in a water basin in which it stands upright .
considering that this is a direct ascent moonshot, and that only alcohol - liquid oxygen fuels would be available, the rocket would have to be roughly twice the size of the saturn v. either this should be
too heavy ,
or
too fragile .
. reviews of the latter compared her to garbo, and one critic wrote, “an entire generation of hollow temptresses can be dethroned by this actress. ” dietrich’s next stage appearance was in george bernard shaw’s
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. the production’s leading lady lili darvas observed dietrich’s ability to stand perfectly still on stage and yet be the focus of attention. “she possessed the most important quality for a star: she could be great without doing anything at all. ” it was a quality that was most effectively exploited in
it is all very thrilling, especially because of the lack of precedent. certainly a long step from the simple cannon of georges méliès' a trip to the moon. the model shots are beautiful and of high technical quality, albeit with depth of field too shallow for verisimilitude. the fine detail on the crawler is particularly notable, with spiny gantries of exposed steel. the spaceship, however, looks a bit too smooth, without the ice formation and imperfections that would make it true - to - life. the depth - of - field is also too shallow, so it clearly looks like a model .
the rocket team is assembled: helius, mannfeldt, windegger, friede and turner, who represents the interests of the evil businessmen. after friede blasts off, they discover that gustav (gustl gstettenbaur), a young boy who has befriended helius, is aboard as a stowaway with his collection of science fiction pulp magazines. during the journey, windegger emerges as a coward, and the feelings of helius toward friede become known to her, creating a romantic triangle .
the lifelike frame rate does give us a chance to observe the actors, all of whom are relative unknowns outside germany. several had long acting careers, in particular helius (willy fritsch) and prof. manfeldt (klaus pohl). gerda maurus plays friede as a cool hitchcockian blonde; in a simple yet elegant white dress at her engagement party, she looks very much like a hitchcockian blond. she calmly tells helius that she will be going along on the spaceflight, which puts the men very much off - balance .
weightlessness is fun. one of the characters anticipates later space shuttle and space station antics by launching up a deck with one push of the feet. there' s also the standard trick of drinking up water globules in zero - g, done in an optical shot with meticulous animation, even having some of them spin around and merge together. unfortunately, the effect is clearly an animation and doesn’t look very real. knowledge of free - fall behavior was quite limited at the time, as propeller aircraft just didn' t have the power to simulate zero - g for a reasonable amount of time .
just before the launch, we get to watch along with the captains of industry as they screen three minutes of spy footage depicting an unmanned test launch. there is even a neat animated schematic diagram, complete with a rotating earth, an orbiting moon, and a rocket that is launched with a slight lead so that it intersect the moon’s position after the three - day journey. with jon mirsalis' unabashedly cosmic score playing in the background, you feel like a president or a prime minister being shown the future of humanity. remember, this footage was produced forty years before man landed on the moon .
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an amnesiac officer weds a barren socialite and adopts his son by a french ballerina .
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a tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there .
the mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government' s secret service .
kay hoog finds a message that indicates that some incas are still alive, but the secret organisation
die spinnen
wants the incas' gold... .
french version of the german movie the testament of dr. mabuse (1933). both movies were directed simultaneously by fritz lang in germany .
two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. in budapest, liliom is a
public figure ,
a rascal who' s a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry - go - round owner and by a... see full summary »
dr. manfeldt' s newspaper clipping contains the date
donnerstag (thursday) august 17, 1896
. that day was actually a monday .
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never
does not exist for the human mind... only
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the commissioner of a remote outpost in africa has a mistress who is so sexy and seductive that she has made several of the local white men kill themselves. she learns that the... see full summary »
a ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances .
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four one - for - all and all - for - one privates in the french foreign legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding... see full summary »
a talkie re - make of the silent version, promoted with :
all talking with songs and dances .
david compton leaves his expecting french girl - friend louise boucher, a dancer at the moulin rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. building a new life from scratch after the war, ... see full summary »
a gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail .
a rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook .
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from the launch until the necessary speed of 11, 200 meters per second is reached... /... there will be eight critical minutes in the battle with the increase in velocity, the pressure of which is fatal for humans when it surpassed forty meters per second .
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read about screen and other courses available in macquarie university’s media, creative arts & communication department .
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156 min. / 200 min. (2000 restoration) / spain: 104 min. / spain: 162 min. (dvd edition) / usa: 95 min / west germany: 91 min (edited version) (1970 )
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hardesty, von and gene eisman. epic rivalry: the inside story of the soviet and american space race. washington, d. c. : national geographic, 2007. p. 2. isbn 978 - 1 - 4262 - 0119 - 6 .
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a semi - fictionalized account of the life of mata hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for germany during world war i .
when diana - as - a - little - girl rides her bike into the tree, you can clearly see the cut where the little girl (with short legs and her foot off the pedal) becomes the stunt - double (with long legs and her foot on the pedal) .
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marlene dietrich (stascha), fritz kortner (dr. karoff), uno henning (henri leblanc), frida richard (frau leblanc), oskar sima (charles leblanc), edith edwards (angèle), karl ettlinger (her father), bruno zienner (philipp, the valet )
two decades after marlene dietrich’s death, her legend still retains its allure. one persistent myth is that josef von sternberg created dietrich the seductress in
( 1992), she did audition, but for a staff member, who rejected her. she did take private lessons at the school and was soon playing small roles in the reinhardt repertory company. she also began playing bit parts in movies, making her celluloid debut as a giggly servant in 1922’s
( 1927). critics called her “a spirited and gifted actress” and “most provocative. ”
was directed by kurt bernhardt, who took credit for discovering dietrich, although she was hardly an unknown at the time. bernhardt had absorbed the expressionist style and used it effectively in the early scenes of henri’s family factory and in the frenzied gaiety of the new year’s eve revelers. years later, he was still miffed that dietrich ignored his direction. “she never moved her head from the spotlight …. she was so well aware of the lighting, right from the beginning. ” dietrich had been experimenting with her look in a berlin photo booth and had found that a single overhead light accented her cheekbones and de - emphasized her upturned nose.
woman to woman is a 1929 british drama film directed by victor saville and starring betty compson , george barraud and juliette compton . the film was an adaptation of the play woman to woman by michael morton which had previously been made into a film in 1923 . 
woman to woman is a 1929 british drama film directed by victor saville and starring betty compson, george barraud and juliette compton. the film was an adaptation of the play woman to woman by michael morton which had previously been made into a film in 1923.
woman to woman is a 1929 british drama film directed by victor saville and starring betty compson, george barraud and juliette compton. the film was an adaptation of the play woman to woman by michael morton which had previously been made into a film in 1923.