Dishonored
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In Josef von Sternberg’s atmospheric spin on the espionage thriller, Marlene Dietrich further develops her shrewd star persona in the role of a widow turned streetwalker who is recruited to spy for Austria during World War I. Adopting the codename X-27, Dietrich’s wily heroine devotes her gifts for seduction and duplicity—as well as her musical talents—to the patriotic cause, until she finds a worthy adversary in a roguish Russian colonel (Victor McLaglen), who draws her into a fatal game of cat and mouse and tests the strength of her loyalties. Reimagining his native Vienna with customary extravagance, von Sternberg stages this story of spycraft as a captivating masquerade in which no one is who they seem and death is only a wrong note away.
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Cast
- Marlene Dietrich
- Marie Kolverer, a.k.a. X-27
- Victor McLaglen
- Colonel Kranau
- Gustav von Seyffertitz
- Director of the Austrian secret service
- Warner Oland
- Colonel von Hindau
- Lew Cody
- Colonel Kovrin
- Barry Norton
- Young lieutenant
Credits
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Story by
- Josef von Sternberg
- Screenplay by
- Daniel N. Rubin
- Photographed by
- Lee Garmes
- Music by
- Karl Hajos
- Art direction by
- Hans Dreier
- Costume design by
- Travis Banton
- Sound by
- Harry D. Mills
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