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Name: Dishonored
Released: 1931-3-5
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland, Lew Cody

Dishonored

UR
1h 31m
1931

90%

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In 1915 Vienna, the Austrian Secret Service recruits a widow to spy for them during World War I. Adopting the codename X-27, she gives 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 who draws her into a fatal game of cat and mouse, testing the strength of her loyalties.

Director:

Josef von Sternberg

Producer:

Josef Von Sternberg

Writer:

Daniel M. Rubin

Cast:

Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland, Lew Cody, Barry Norton

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

90%

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

Dietrich's fine performance and von Sternberg's visuals (that masquerade ball!) overcome both a shaky second half and a badly miscast Victor McLaglen.

The elaborate disguises, sophisticated ruses, and arachnid schemes... display the elegant beauty of fakery; their ultimate truth is disclosed in Dietrich's insolent smile when facing down men with guns.

Had Dishonored managed to be more than a mere subpar melodrama, perhaps it would have managed to make more of an impact in the von Sternberg canon.

von Sternberg turns what could have been little more than a typical espionage potboiler into another one of his luxuriant visual essays on Dietrich's smoldering screen presence and his own love of cinematic texture, depth, and tactility.

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

Entertaining melodrama that promotes glamour over telling a realistic spy tale.

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