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The Docks of New York (1928)

I've written before about Criterion's upcoming release of Three Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg. Now Gary Tooze at DVD Beaver has done a preview, and it looks just as good as I had anticipated. I took the still above from him.

Sternberg was one of the many directors of the late silent era who paved the way for the visual style of film noir, as well as developing the figure of the femme fatale in the masochistic romantic melodramas he made with Marlene Dietrich.