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Marlene Dietrich 6 Disc Box Set ( Shanghai Express / Destry Rides Again / The Devil Is a Woman / A Foreign Affair / Blonde Venus / The Lady Is Willing ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2.4 Import - Great Britain ] | DVD

Directed By: Billy Wilder, George Marshall, Josef von Sternberg, Mitchell Leisen
Also With: Anna May Wong (Primary Contributor), Brian Donlevy (Primary Contributor), Cary Grant (Primary Contributor), Clive Brook (Primary Contributor), Eugene Pallette (Primary Contributor), James Stewart (Primary Contributor), Joel McCrea (Primary Contributor), Lawrence Grant (Primary Contributor), Marlene Dietrich (Primary Contributor), Warner Oland (Primary Contributor), CategoryArthouse (Commentary), CategoryClassicFilms (Commentary), CategoryUSA (Commentary), film movie Classic (Commentary)

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534 minutes

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Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Shanghai Express;;As China's great train, the Shanghai Express, is being boarded and loaded with baggage, a mixed assortment of characters run elbows, a lady of questionable reputation known as the White Flower of the Chinese coast; a British Medical Corps officer; Warner Oland, a shady half-caste merchant with a penchant for carrying a cane; and Anna Mae Wong, an American-bred Chinese prostitute with plans for starting anew in marriage. The time of the journey is one of great political unrest, with the possibility of bands of rebels attacking the train looming large.;;Destry Rides Again;;Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to control. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr to be his deputy. Featuring a career reviving performance from Marlene Dietrich as bar singer Frenchie, which could well have been the inspiration for Madeline Kahn's 'Blazing Saddles' character, Lili Von Schtupp.;;The Devil Is a Woman;;Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is SternbergÍs surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. In a cafe the older man details his encounters with the heartbreaker that his younger friend has only just met at the parade.Forewarned, the young man swears he will avo

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marvelous Marlene box! by Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood)

4 Stars
June 20, 2009
This 6-disc boxset collection can be picked up for an amazingly cheap price in the UK at the moment. It contains six of Marlene Dietrich's most beloved films (several of them are still unavailble in the US), all in beautiful, authorized studio tranfers. Collected together they create an effective cross-section of Marlene's various screen guises. BLONDE VENUS (1932): When her husband (Herbert Marshall) is struck down with a potentially-fatal illness, housewife and mother Helen Faraday (Dietrich) reluctantly returns to the music-hall stage in order to fund his medical journey to Europe. Separated from her husband, Helen finds comfort in the arms of a kind millionaire (Cary Grant). Dietrich performs "Hot Voodoo" whilst wearing a gorilla costume! SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1932): The setting is a train en route from Peking to Shanghai; it's occupants include Chinese prostitute Hui Fei (Anna May Wong), American millionaire Sam Salt (Eugene Pallette), physician Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook) and notorious 'coaster' Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich). When the journey is interrupted by a deadly Chinese uprising led by Chang (Warner Oland), the past romance enjoyed between Lily and 'Doc' Harvey comes back into the light when she saves him from Chang's henchmen. THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN (1935): Antonio (Cesar Romero), a political prisoner on the run, becomes entranced by fiery carnival dancer Concha Perez (Marlene Dietrich), but is strongly cautioned by his old friend Don Pasquale (Lionel Atwill). As one of Concha's former lovers, "Pasqualito" knows all too well the tricks and deceptions that Concha eagerly creates for her male conquests, which the audience members also discover during several entertaining flashback sequences. DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (1939): Marlene's first big comedy role, that of saloon singer Frenchy in a rowdy western parody starring Jimmy Stewart in the title role. Noteworthy for the musical number "The Boys in the Back-Room"; and an hilarious catfight between Dietrich and Una Merkel. THE LADY IS WILLING (1942): Flamboyant musical theatre star Liza Madden (Marlene Dietrich) stuns her personal assistants and staff members when she returns from a shopping spree with an extra, unexpected piece of merchandise...a nine-month-old baby. Apparently abandoned by it's parents, Liza decides to keep it, despite the fact that unmarried and financially-unstable Liza won't be seen as a fit parent. She decides to enter into a marriage of convenience with paediatrician Dr. Corey McBain (Fred MacMurray). In exchange for helping her keep the baby, she'll help fund his rabbit-breeding experiments. But how long will it be until Liza and Corey really DO find love? A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948): Post-war Berlin is the setting for this fascinating Billy Wilder movie which is equal parts romantic comedy and stinging attack on WW2's evil corruption. Nazi sympathiser Erika Von Shluetow (Dietrich) is protected by an American soldier (John Lund), until a no-nonsense Government worker (Jean Arthur) intervenes. Definitely a must-buy for those with multi region players.

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