#gustav von seyffertitz

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Safe in Hell (The Lost Lady) (1931) William A. Wellman

May 16th 2023

#safe in hell #the lost lady #1931 #william a. wellman #dorothy mackaill #donald cook #ralf harolde #nina mae mckinney #morgan wallace #charles middleton #clarence muse #john wray #ivan f. simpson #victor varconi #cecil cunningham #gustav von seyffertitz #lady from new orleans #pre-code

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Gustav Von Seyffertitz-Louise Brooks "¿Quién la mató?" (The canary murder case) 1929, de Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle.

#Louise Brooks #Gustav Von Seyffertitz #Malcolm St. Clair #Frank Tuttle

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She

She 1935 – an excellent adaptation of the novel, the immortal She Who Must Be Obeyed – and she thinks she’s found her reincarnated lover. Whom she murdered centuries ago, for suspicion of being unfaithful. She’s beautiful, cruel, capricious. Can his friends rescue Leo before it’s too late? Continue reading She

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#1935 #Gustav von Seyffertitz #Helen Mack #Lumsden Hare #Nigel Bruce #Noble Johnson #Randolph Scott #Samuel S. Hinds

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GUSTAV VON SEYFFERTITZ ALERT: Gustav Von Seyffertitz appears in Safe in Hell

#Safe in Hell #Gustav Von Seyffertitz #Nina Mae McKinney #q

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'Safe in Hell' – Dorothy Mackaill takes refuge on HBO Max

The Hollywood films of the early 1930s pushed the limits of what was permissible to show on screen and few directors used that freedom as well as William Wellman.  Her directs the pre-code drama Safe in Hell (1931), a kind of B-movie riff on Sadie Thompson (the original bad girl in the tropics melodrama), with a merciless brutality. It stars the largely forgotten Dorothy Mackaill as Gilda, a…

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#1931 #Blu-ray #Charles Middleton #Clarence Muse #Donald Cook #Dorothy Mackaill #DVD #Gustav von Seyffertitz #HBO Max #Morgan Wallace #Nina Mae McKinney #Ralf Harold #Safe in Hell #VOD #William Wellman

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Dorothy Mackaill in Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman, 1931)

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Morgan Wallace, John Wray, Ivan Simpson, Victor Varconi, Nina Mae McKinney, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Noble Johnson, Cecil Cunningham, George F. Marion. Screenplay: Joseph Jackson, Maude Fulton, based on a play by Houston Branch. Cinematography: Sidney Hickox. Art direction: Jack Okey. Film editing: Owen Marks. 

Seamy and salacious, Safe in Hell is sometimes cited as an example of what finally scared Hollywood into accepting the Production Code, except that you could hardly find a more conventionally moral fable than this tale of a call girl who gives up her sinful ways when her sailor comes back from sea and proposes marriage. Unfortunately, the man who done her wrong intervenes and Gilda (Dorothy Mackaill) is forced to flee to a Caribbean island populated mostly by men of the wrong sort. Still, she manages to hold on to her renewed virtue and rise to self-sacrificing heights at the end. Mackaill is terrific in the role, making me wonder why she's not well-known today. It's probably because most of her work was done in silent films and she was turning 30 when sound came in, putting her at a disadvantage against younger actresses like Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck when it came to landing lead roles. Director William A. Wellman had a steady hand with this kind of tough-edged melodrama, introducing touches of comedy like the crowd of lecherous barflies who live in the hotel Gilda moves into while waiting the return of Carl (Donald Cook), her sailor. When she moves into her room on the balcony at the top of the stairs, they turn around their chairs to face it, eager for whatever action may occur. They're not disappointed: Piet Van Saal (Ralf Harolde), the man she thought she killed, forcing her to flee to the island, turns up alive, and the island's lawman, its "jailer and executioner" in his words, the unsavory Mr. Bruno (Morgan Wallace), also takes an interest in her. It's a middling movie, mostly of historical interest, particularly in the appearance of two important Black actors, Clarence Muse and Nina Mae McKinney, in roles that don't call for them to kowtow too much to the whites or speak the standard dialect concocted for Black people in the movies. McKinney, best known today for her performance as Chick in King Vidor's Hallelujah (1929). gets to introduce the song "When It's Sleepy Time Down South," which became a jazz standard when Louis Armstrong popularized it. Muse, who plays a hotel porter, was one of its composers, along with Leon René and Otis René. 

#Safe in Hell #William A. Wellman #Dorothy Mackaill

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George Kotsonoras and Gustav Von Seyffertitz- the WIZARD (1927)

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間諜X27　

ジョセフ・フォン・スタンバーグ

Dishonored

Directed by Josef von Sternberg • 1931 • United States Starring Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz

ジョセフスタンベーグ×マレーネディートリッヒ、女スパイの話。

処刑所に向かう前、兵士が手渡す目隠しで、彼の涙を拭うマレーネ。

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Gustav von Seyffertitz in The Wizard (1927)

#Gustav von Seyffertitz #the wizard #1927 #1920s #vintage #film #movie

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Endlich einmal wieder Spione. Marlene Dietrich ist zwar nicht die begabteste Spionin in der Geschichte des Geheimagentengenres, aber die schönste, aber sie hat keine Angst vor dem Leben und dem Tod, und eine Katze, die genau wie Dracula aussieht. Der Tobi ist diesmal unwesentlich gnädiger, als beim letzten Mal: “Es ist mir immer noch lieber als Scarlet Empress.”, sagt er. Ha!

#Dishonored #Marlene Dietrich #Victor McLaglen #Warner Oland #Gustav von Seyffertitz #Film gesehen #Josef von Sternberg #Cat Content

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Dishonored (1931) Josef von Sternberg

April 13th 2024

#dishonored #1931 #josef von sternberg #marlene dietrich #victor mclaglen #gustav von seyffertitz #warner oland #madame nobody #pre-code #PreCodeApril

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Gustav Von Seyffertitz-Olga Baclanova "Are you there?" 1930, de Hamilton MacFadden.

#Olga Baclanova #Gustav Von Seyffertitz #Hamilton MacFadden

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Shanghai Express

1932. Drama

By Josef von Sternberg

Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Louise Closser Hale, Émile Chautard

Country: United States

Language: English, German, French, Mandarin

#Shanghai Express #Josef von Sternberg #Marlene Dietrich #Anna May Wong #Clive Brook #Warner Oland #Eugene Pallette #Lawrence Grant #Gustav von Seyffertitz #Louise Closser Hale #Émile Chautard #1932 #1930s #pre code #Drama #United States #English #German #French #Mandarin

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Sherlock Holmes (1922) dir. Albert Parker

#Sherlock Holmes (1922 film) #John Barrymore #Roland Young #Gustav von Seyffertitz #moreholmes

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Nosferatu - 1922

O corretor de imóveis Hutter precisa vender um castelo cujo proprietário é o excêntrico conde Graf Orlock. O conde, na verdade, é um vampiro milenar que espalha o terror na região de Bremen, na Alemanha e se interessa por Ellen, a mulher de Hutter.

#filmes #classicos #classic movies #nosferatu #1920s #max schreck #gustav von seyffertitz #greta schröder

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Dishonored | Josef von Sternberg | 1931

Gustav von Seyffertitz

#Gustav von Seyffertitz #Josef von Sternberg #Dishonored #1931