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French Foreign Legion, which famously "asks no questions" about an applicant's background. Likewise, Brown seems to have no future beyond fighting for a cause that he does not believe in Morocco and seemingly sleeping with every women in sight. It is only when he meets Amy that he finds someone that he actually cares about and a reason to be hopeful about the future. Most notably, Brown who was portrayed as an entirely cynical, selfish character prior to meeting Amy displays an altruistic side as he encourages Amy to marry the rich man La Bessière who is more capable of supporting her financially than he is under his private's salary. Despite his efforts to push Amy out of his life, when he is alone, he carves the "Amy Jolly" onto the table along with a heart.
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She informs La Bessière that she must go to Tom, and, wanting only her happiness, he drives her to the hospital. It turns out Tom had been faking an injury to avoid combat and, when this was discovered, he was assigned to a new unit in the Legion. Amy goes to a bar where Tom was, briefly talks with him, and when he leaves, finds he carved into the table the name "Amy", showing he still loves her, which surprises her.
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knows of her feelings for Tom and offers to use his influence to lighten Tom's punishment. Instead of a court-martial, Tom is reassigned to a detachment commanded by Caesar that is leaving soon for Amalfa Pass. Suspecting that Caesar intends to rid himself of his romantic rival while they are gone, Tom decides to desert and run away with Amy.
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along and asks Tom to wait while she performs. Once he is alone, he notices a lavish bracelet that La Bessière has given to Amy. Though he has fallen in love with her, Tom decides Amy would be better off with a rich man than with a poor Legionnaire. He writes on the mirror, "I changed my mind. Good luck!" and leaves.
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The character of Tom Brown was portrayed as an example of a lost soul, a tough, jaded American serving in the French Foreign Legion with a name that was so bland that it was clearly a pseudonym. In the film, it is strongly implied that Brown was attempting to escape a painful past by enlisting in the
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On the way to Amy's house, Tom encounters Adjudant Caesar's wife. She clearly has a clandestine relationship with him, which she desires to maintain, but Tom rejects her. He enters Amy's house and the two become acquainted. Amy is embittered with life and men after repeated betrayals, and asks if Tom
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This famous sequence provides an insight into Dietrich's character, Amy Jolly, as well as the director himself: "Dietrich's impersonation is an adventure, an act of bravado that subtly alters her conception of herself as a woman, and what begins as self-expression ends in self-sacrifice, perhaps the
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was released to international acclaim in 1930, Paramount Pictures took a keen interest in its new star, Marlene Dietrich. When the Berlin production was completed in January, Sternberg departed Germany before its premiere on April 1, confident his work would be a success. Legend has it that Dietrich
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Back in Mogador, Amy accepts La Bessière's marriage proposal and tries to make herself love him, but she still pines for Tom. At an engagement party, she hears the return of the remains of Tom's detachment. She leaves the party and is told Tom was wounded and left behind to recuperate in a hospital.
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Tom goes to Amy's nightclub dressing room. He overhears La Bessière offer to marry Amy, and her politely reject the proposal, before knocking on the door. La Bessière leaves Amy alone with Tom, who tells her that, if she will join him, he will desert and board a freighter to Europe. She agrees to go
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The next day, Tom is brought before Caesar, who is Tom's commanding officer, for injuring the two natives. Amy helps Tom's case by testifying that he was attacked, but Caesar makes Tom aware that he knows about Tom's involvement with his wife. La Bessière, whose affections for Amy continue unabated,
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The "absurdity" of the closing sequence, in which Dietrich, "sets out into the desert sands on spike heels in search of Gary Cooper", was noted by critics at the time of the film's release. The image, however odd, is part of the "dream décor" that abandoned "documentary certification" to create "a
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and tails" includes a "mock seduction" of a pretty female cabaret patron, whom Dietrich "outrages with a kiss." Dietrich's costume simultaneously mocks the pretensions of one lover (Menjou's La Bessière) and serves as an invitation to a handsome soldier-of-fortune (Cooper's Tom Brown), the two men
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In a contemporary review, the French critic Michel Vauclaire wrote: "Every year in the US, half a dozen novels are published about the Legion, in general very severe and quite fantastic. It's obviously on this sort of fiction that Sternberg has based his research. Perhaps the film reflects the
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demands of art, between pride in restraint and passion in excess ... when Dietrich kisses him goodbye, Menjou clutches her wrist in one last spasmodic reflex of passion, but the other hand retains its poise at his side, the gestures of form and feeling thus conflicting to the very end of the
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On the way to Amalfa Pass, Tom's detachment runs into a machine-gun nest. Caesar orders Tom to deal with it, and Tom suspects it is a suicide mission. To his surprise, Caesar decides to accompany him. After drawing his pistol (apparently to kill Tom), Caesar is shot and killed by the enemy.
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Back in the street, Tom encounters Caesar's wife again, while her husband watches undetected from the shadows. Meanwhile, Amy changes her mind and comes after Tom, who heads back with her to her house. Madame Caesar hires two ruffians to attack Tom, but he manages to seriously wound both.
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In the morning, Amy, after a drunken, miserable night, arrives in the town square with La Bessière so she can bid Tom farewell. She asks La Bessière about some women following the company, remarking that the women must be mad. He responds, "I don't know. You see, they love their men."
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inviting American tourists to enjoy the country "just as Gary Cooper unforgettable landscapes and engaging people." However, the film was filmed entirely in southern California, and Sternberg felt compelled to personally reassure the
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Cinematographer Lee Garmes and Sternberg (himself a skilled camera technician) developed the distinctive lighting methods that served to enhance Dietrich's best facial features, while obscuring her slightly bulbous nose.
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world of illusions." As Sarris points out, "The complaint that a woman in high heels would not walk off into the desert is nonetheless meaningless. A dream does not require endurance, only the will to act."
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contains long sections sustained only by its stunning visual beauty, augmented with appropriate music and aural effects. Sternberg was the first artist to make an authentic virtue of the arrival of sound.
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Amy becomes the headliner at a nightclub. After a performance, she sells apples to audience members, including La Bessière and Brown. When Amy gives the latter his "change", she slips him her key.
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in the late 1920s, a unit of the French Foreign Legion returns from a campaign. Among the legionnaires is Private Tom Brown. Meanwhile, on a ship bound for Mogador is the disillusioned
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agreed to bring Dietrich to Hollywood in February 1930 under a two-picture contract. When she arrived in the United States, Sternberg welcomed her with gifts, including a green
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can restore her faith in men. He answers that he is the wrong man for that. Unwilling to risk heartbreak yet again, she asks him to leave before anything serious happens.
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onto the set and went out of his way to demonstratively show his affections by having her sit on his lap between takes and passionately kissing her as often as possible.
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essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010
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Next morning, Amy and La Bessière watch Tom's new unit readying for their march. Tom and Amy briefly speak. The two wave goodbye. When Amy sees a
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The La Bessière character has autobiographical overtones for Sternberg, as Menjou has looks and mannerisms that resemble the director. Critic
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following the legionnaires, she impulsively leaves La Bessière, kicks off her high-heeled shoes, joins them, following Tom into the desert.
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Sternberg's depiction of "picturesque" Morocco elicited a favorable response from the Moroccan government, which ran announcements in
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Dietrich "was subjected to the full power of Paramount's public relations machine", launching her into "international stardom"
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The film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Director (Sternberg), Best Actress (Dietrich), Best Art Direction (
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and kisses another woman (to the embarrassment of the latter), both of which were considered scandalous for the period.
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American public's idea of the Legionaries. In France, despite its dramatic pretensions, it will raise a laugh".
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Film historian Charles Silver considers the final scene as one that "no artist today would dare attempt":
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Morocco was released by Universal Studios in DVD on April 25, 2011, under label Universal Vault Series.
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The character of Amy was toned down considerably from the novel. As in the book, in the film the name
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observed: "Sternberg has never been as close to any character as he is to this elegant expatriate."
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informed him that Paramount “had been saved from bankruptcy” by the box office success of
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in a going-away gift package to Sternberg when he sailed for America. He and screenwriter
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In Menjou's pained politeness of expression is engraved the age-old tension between
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Amy Jolly. Wealthy La Bessière tries to make her acquaintance, but she rebuffs him.
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set out in her society shoes but within yards breaks her stride and removes them.)
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being presented by Sternberg as contrasting conceptions of masculinity."
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On the basis of test footage Sternberg provided from the yet unreleased
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Dietrich's devoted suitor, Menjou's La Bessière, "part stoic, part
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as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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L–R: La Bessière (Adolphe Menjou) and Amy Jolly (Marlene Dietrich)
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s success at the box office was "immediate and impressive".
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Accolades for the film were issued by Soviet director
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Morocco (1930 film)

Josef von Sternberg
Jules Furthman
Benno Vigny
Hector Turnbull
Gary Cooper
Marlene Dietrich
Adolphe Menjou
Lee Garmes
Karl Hajos
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Publix Corporation
pre-Code
romantic
drama film
Josef von Sternberg
Gary Cooper
Marlene Dietrich
Adolphe Menjou
Benno Vigny
Jules Furthman
Rif War
tailcoat
Academy Award
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Director
Hans Dreier
Best Art Direction
Lee Garmes

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